Dumpster Dive

From Ecologic

Contents 1 General Notes 2 What to Bring 3 Method 4 What to Track 5 Previous Dives

General Notes

• Pickup is 3 times a week?
• Hardest part is deciding how you're going to separate
• Why do we dumpster dive?
• Jay (from Ben C. has old excel files)

What to Bring

• Tarp
• Plastic Bags
• Scale
• Notebook

Method

• Make sure dumpster isn't empty
• Put down Tarp
• Pull out Dumpster Bags
• Separate bag contents into piles
  • Paper
  • Containers
  • Compost
  • Trash
• Bag piles
• Tare scale with a person
• Weigh pile with tared person
• 5-6 people per dumpster

What to Track

• Weight of recyclables in trash dumpster
• Weight of trash in trash dumpster
• Weight of recyclables in recycling dumpster
• Weight of trash in recycling dumpster

Previous Dives

• Earth Week Dumpster Dives 2008
• In past 75% of trash dumpster contents could be recycled by weight