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I live in a uni town and when graduation comes around(pretty soon), there are all kinds of goodies on the sidewalk and trashbins. LCD TVs, clothing, furniture,

I live in a uni town and when graduation comes around(pretty soon), there are all kinds of goodies on the sidewalk and trashbins. LCD TVs, clothing, furniture, food, bikes, etc. Everybody talks about evironmentalism execept they don't actually practice it.

tdeck 1y ago
> Everybody talks about evironmentalism execept they don't actually practice it. I think this is just a lack of planning and options for many students. Think about it - it's the end of the year, you've got a pile of exams to study for, and then a week or two later you've got to be out of the dorms. Many students don't have a car to haul things to Goodwill or sell them further afield, and nobody on campus wants to buy their stuff because everyone else is moving out at the same time. If they look into shipping the stuff, they find it's prohibitively expensive. So the only option available in the time they have is to trash it.
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- in_cahoots 1y ago
  Do colleges not store stuff for students who will be back in the fall? My undergraduate school did this (and had a large contingent of students doing research over the summer), so graduation day just meant that furniture was mostly moved around and snatched up by other students, or even stayed in place as the students changed dorm rooms.
  - tdeck 1y ago
    At my school there was a service you could pay for that charged by the box, however when I graduated I had to leave a lot of stuff behind (granted I didn't have any $900 furniture).
dml2135 1y ago
> Everybody talks about evironmentalism execept they don't actually practice it. My impression is that only about half the population, at most, even pretends to care about environmentalism.
- fortran77 1y ago
  But most likely that half is well-represented in college undergraduates.
- bluGill 1y ago
  Everyone cares. They will often convince themselves that some things don't matter (global warming) or that their part is insignificant, but everyone cares in some way/time/form.

tdeck 1y ago

> Everybody talks about evironmentalism execept they don't actually practice it. I think this is just a lack of planning and options for many students. Think about it - it's the end of the year, you've got a pile of exams to study for, and then a week or two later you've got to be out of the dorms. Many students don't have a car to haul things to Goodwill or sell them further afield, and nobody on campus wants to buy their stuff because everyone else is moving out at the same time. If they look into shipping the stuff, they find it's prohibitively expensive. So the only option available in the time they have is to trash it.

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in_cahoots 1y ago
Do colleges not store stuff for students who will be back in the fall? My undergraduate school did this (and had a large contingent of students doing research over the summer), so graduation day just meant that furniture was mostly moved around and snatched up by other students, or even stayed in place as the students changed dorm rooms.
- tdeck 1y ago
  At my school there was a service you could pay for that charged by the box, however when I graduated I had to leave a lot of stuff behind (granted I didn't have any $900 furniture).

dml2135 1y ago

> Everybody talks about evironmentalism execept they don't actually practice it. My impression is that only about half the population, at most, even pretends to care about environmentalism.

fortran77 1y ago
But most likely that half is well-represented in college undergraduates.
bluGill 1y ago
Everyone cares. They will often convince themselves that some things don't matter (global warming) or that their part is insignificant, but everyone cares in some way/time/form.