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As my roommate and I wandered around Day Hall during our last few weeks on campus, we noticed the mountains of furniture and trash piled up in the hallways. I was shocked by the things people were dumping as they packed up to move out. At one point, I even saw a brand-new, untouched North Face jacket in the trash. I’ve seen Ugg shoes in great condition, boxes of makeup, furniture with almost no faults and cartons of unopened food.
And this epidemic isn’t exclusive to Syracuse University. PlanetAid estimates a single college student wastes about 640 pounds of trash a year, with more than one-third of this waste occurring between May and June…