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May 03, 2004
University of Michigan students are pawns of the consumerist society many of them doubtless protest. The Ann Arbor News reports on the staggering amount of, uh, stuff, they leave behind in their dorm rooms at the end of the school year. Each year, U-M collects roughly 10,000 pounds of clothing, 2,100 pounds of shoes and 1,700 pounds of bedding and blankets left behind by students moving out of campus residence halls. Wonder how much of this detritus is made outside the U.S.? And how much ends up in landfills? Would it be so hard for dorm-dwellers to donate their left-behind clothes, shoes, sheets and blankets to charity? Posted by Matt Rosenberg at May 3, 2004 12:26 PM Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: Comments:
Colleges need to encourage more clothes drives. I have one going on at my dorm at Whitworth (Spokane) right now and there's piles of clothes overflowing from the donor boxes. This should be a regular, common thing. Posted by: chris collins at May 3, 2004 02:34 PMExcellent approach, Chris. And you're right. More colleges and universities should encourage this. Posted by: Matt Rosenberg at May 3, 2004 02:55 PMPost a comment
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