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"Sustainability in Campus Housing: The Overlooked Reality of Sleeping on Eventual Trash"
Author: Mike Padrnos and Christine Hansen
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: March/April 2019

More often than not, residence hall and dormitory mattresses are disregarded in terms of the amount of eventual landfill trash students are sleeping on. With college and university sustainability officials increasing their focus on campus waste diversion rates, dorm mattress recycling may be a new area of study that may provide an alternative avenue to advance collegiate green initiatives.


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