Call it recycling 2.0. This month, the campus is moving to single stream, in which paper, along with clean plastic, glass, aluminum and steel containers and bottles, can be placed in one bin for pick-up by the Office of Waste Management.
The change also means that faculty and staff can put all of their recyclables in a single deskside bin and have it collected by custodial staff on Tuesdays and Thursdays, according to John Pepi, the campus’ solid waste manager.
In addition, deskside trash pick-up will take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
“We’re hoping single stream leads to a
Stephen Miller, associate professor of Japanese language and literature, recently published a monograph with the Cornell University East Asia Series titled “The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period.”
UMass Amherst has entered into a consent agreement and final order with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would safely allow the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contaminated window glazing found in the Lederle Graduate Research Center low-rise and 16-story Tower A to temporarily remain in place. The agreement is considered a first-in-the-nation solution to a problem found in many buildings built from 1950 through 1979.
Richardson, doctoral student Wanette Vargas, and others at the Neurobiology of Stress and Addiction Laboratory use an adolescent rat model to reflect the typical teen experience with alcohol, which includes individual variability and intermittent exposure.
Tuition and fees at the University are on average a much smaller percentage of median family income than they are at the state’s private universities and other New England public universities, and one in four Massachusetts residents enrolled as a first-time freshman in a four-year public or private school in the state attends UMass, according to a new report released Sept. 7 by President Robert L. Caret.