End-of-school-year wastefulness at Providence’s institutions of higher learning has been a problem for a while. This photo of a heap of move-out stuff, much of it likely reusable, outside the Young Orchard Avenue dormitory at Brown University was taken in 2011. (Joanna Detz/ecoRI News)
PROVIDENCE — Two East Side women have a concept of a plan to stop clothes, vacuums, furniture, and books from being buried in Johnston.
After our publisher and my wife, Joanna Detz, and I spoke with the duo last week, at Coffee Exchange on Wickenden Street, ecoRI News agreed to work with them to find a solution. I volunteered to be a grunt…