SURPLUS AVAILABLE

LaserJet cartridges available for a 4600,4610 or 4650 machine. Please let us know if interested and we will connect you with the donor.
Black - C9720A
Cyan - C9721A
Magenta - C9723A

SURPLUS WANTED

Harvard honeybee hobbyist is looking for a STEREO MICROSCOPE: The magnification on the scope should be about a 7-10 power. The working distance needs to be around 110 mm or greater. There is also a need for a cold light source. Please contact us if you have any to donate.

FREE SURPLUS FURNITURE

Free Surplus Furniture and other items! If donating furniture, please instruct your movers to contact us 24 hours before delivery so that we can receive and display everything safely. All drawers or storage compartments must be empty and swept clean. We can take material only from Harvard buildings which use our waste and recycling services, and we can never receive any trash or hazardous waste. Please keep in mind that parking space limitations force us to be STRICT ABOUT PARKING RULES. Please respect our neighbors' need to maintain safe traffic flow around the Recycling and Surplus Center. When here for Thursday's Surplus Distribution, follow the parking monitor's direction and park only in designated areas. You may also park in the free spaces in the streets adjacent to the property. If you are interested in seeing any of the items now available, come to our Recycling and Surplus Center at 175 North Harvard Street in Allston any Thursday from 11 to 2 PM. A street map showing our location is here. Everything is free, first-come, first-served and open to everyone.

Surplus Distribution will be closed Thursday, 5-27-10, Commencement Day. We last closed on Thanksgiving Day 2009 and will be open every Thursday until Veteran’s Day, 11-11-10. Thursdays through June we expect to have a rich spread of furniture, supplies, equipment, and computers which are not suitable for use by the LABBB program.

Recycling Services driver Alex Gonsalves keeps up with Move-out recycling at Thayer Hall. May 2009 we recovered more recyclables than any previous year, despite the recession. Alex and the rest of the recycling team will be on campus through June 4th to sweep all Houses and dorms at least once per day, including Commencement and Memorial Day. Photo by Rob Gogan.

SHUT DOWN SUSTAINABLY when you leave for the long Memorial Day weekend (or any other vacations or long weekends you plan to take this summer)! Here is good advice sent in February prior to our last long weekend from Real Estate Services´ Commercial Properties Director Carolee Hill:

"Dear Colleagues - Would you please take a few moments to shut down sustainability before leaving for the long weekend? Following these simple guidelines will save energy and help support the University in its goal of reducing greenhouse gas consumption by 30% by 2016... Shut curtains/lower your blinds for extra [protection from solar radiation].... Shut off computers, printers, and faxes and other non-essential electronics.... Tightly turn off faucets, and report any leaks to the Property Management Office.... Unplug appliances (microwave ovens, toasters, toaster ovens, etc.). Please DO NOT unplug refrigerators... Turn off the lights.... Thank you and have a great holiday."

 

WASTE BUSTERS CLEAN UP

at Harvard Green Carpet Awards! The Office for Sustainability hosted the first Green Carpet Awards Friday, 4-23-10, at Sanders Theater (read OFS article here). Alumni Affairs and Development’s junk mail reduction, reusable mugs and double-side copying won them the Green Team Award, received by team led by Henry Kesner in his "Kermit the Frog" costume. In the Waste & Water Reduction category, the Divinity School Green Team and EcoDiv student group shared top honors for having the campus’s highest recycling rate of 70% overall; Longwood’s Sebastian’s Café and Eco Opportunity Green Team also won for eliminating bottled water. Other Green Carpet Awards notable for sustainable materials management included the HARVARD COMMUNITY GARDEN, led by Zach Arnold ’10, Rebecca Cohen ’12, Louisa Dennison ’11 and many others, who use Harvard compost in their raised beds; and SEEDING LABS, led by Nina Dudnik and supported by several graduate and undergraduate volunteers. This program recovers used lab equipment for researchers in needy countries, and Harvard Recycling is proud to support the effort with warehouse space. Individuals called to the Green Carpet:

• Gracie Brown ’11, former Environmental Action Committee co-chair and enthusiastic leader of the Re-used Box Sale Brigade during the ’08 and ’09 Move-outs
• Kelly Evans ’10, whose REP Eco Projects included setting up composting for her suite and Adams House entry-mates and assembly of Green Party Kits, which make recycling and composting easy for hosts
• Paul Bellenoit, Director of Operations and Security for Harvard College Library, whose strategic planning for the Library includes procurement of ultra-durable upholstered chairs for the Reading Rooms that can last 9 years and still look new
• Peter Brown, Manager of FAS Animal Resources, for reducing energy and composting thousands of cubic yards of animal bedding
• Jerry Connors, Associate Director of Laboratories, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, whose efforts have diverted hundreds of tons of equipment and basic recyclables from disposal
• Sarah Gordon, Human Resources and Financial Administrator for FAS, who refurbished an office with reused furniture and organized the first FAS FreeCycle event
• Maureen McCarthy, Building Manager for FAS, who has expanded composting to the Barker Center Café and University Hall
• Claire Reardon, Lab Manager for FAS Center for Systems Biology, who has piloted a reusable biohazard box and sharps container
• Katie Steele, Director of Freshman Programming, Office of Student Life, who helped inaugurate the Green ’13 group to promote sustainability to freshmen, and who provided a reusable shopping bag to all entering students
• Steph Zabel, Curatorial Assistant at the Herbaria, who published "Vita Veridis" and promoted many zero waste events

Landscape Services' TOIL & SOIL HELPS LAUNCH GARDEN!

Students inaugurated the Harvard Community Garden April 18th. Soil for the 25 raised beds was blended from equal parts screened loam and FMO Landscape Services' own compost, which was made at the Arnold Arboretum from organics collected from the Cambridge campus. The soil is kind to the plants, according to Zach Arnold '10. "The plants we pull out for thinning have deep roots that go straight down." Gardeners Rachel and Louisa also planted four Concord Grape vines at the Harvard Recycling and Surplus Center in Allston (see photo). Read more about the garden here.

Picture: Concord grapes thrive in soil blended from Harvard’s composted organic refuse and donated by Brickends Farm in Hamilton, MA. Harvard Community Garden constructed the planters out of pallets discarded by campus buildings. See our vineyard at the Recycling and Surplus Center in Allston. Photo by Louisa Denison.

 

HBS SPRING CLEANING CLOTHING SWAP!

Read Carol Healy's article about the smashing success of this event, which allowed students, faculty and staff to swap wearable clothing. Remember that the Harvard Habitat for Humanity Donation Stations at 55 locations around campus (including at HBS) throughout the month of May, accept wearable and even non-wearable clothing, any leather goods, any luggage, any shoes (paired or single), any books, any small dorm furnishings (mirrors, irons, waste baskets etc), any school supplies, and any other reusable items of any kind.

 

CAMPUS NATURE WATCH

• Young EASTERN COTTONTAIL RABBIT nestles, still and quiet, in a tall tussock of courtyard grass at 46 Blackstone Street. Later, its mother scampers back to nurse it.
  
  
• Pair of CARDINALS comes to bathe periodically in the Busch Hall courtyard birdbath.
  
  
• MOCKINGBIRD sings on top of Busch Hall weathervane and other areas of the roof.
  
  
• COMMON FLICKER calls loudly from among emerging leaves and tassels atop white oak tree on Hammond Street.
  
  
• Big, lively WILD TURKEY romps around Currier House sunken courtyard, then flies out of the courtyard and back into the wilds of the Radcliffe Quad.
  
  
• [The same?] WILD TURKEY struts pensively on the lawn in front of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  
  
• In the volunteer-maintained garden in front of Loeb House, male COMMON YELLOWTHROAT calls from a blooming laurel bush.
  
  
• Two male AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES stake their melodious territorial claims for each other among the trees next to Emerson Hall.
  
  
• WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH waits near a big hole in the Swamp White Oak behind Sever while his mate inspects the cavity’s suitability for nesting. He is not surprised when his mate suddenly emerges, possibly rejecting the hole as too big to protect from predators.
  
  
• Blooms of BUCKEYE TREES flash deep pink all the way to the top branches behind Widener.
  
  
• Two deep red/magenta MAGNOLIAS on either side of the door to Lehman Hall are matched by two AZALEA bushes of the same hue. VIOLETS on the side of Loeb outmatch a red TULIP and tiny pale DAFFODILS. CRAB APPLES on the roof of Pusey have red yet unopened blossoms.
  
  
• HARVARD BIOBLITZ May 2-3: Students in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology lead a 24 hour inventory of all species living on the Cambridge and Allston campuses. See blog and great photos here.
  
  

Thanks to Campus Nature Watchers Wayne Carbone, Adam Clark, Sonia Ketchian, Bob Kirshner and Sandy Selesky!

 

Contact Us

For information concerning Recycling and Solid Waste Removal, contact Rob Gogan, Supervisor of Recycling and Solid Waste Removal at 617-495-3042, or email rob_gogan at harvard dot edu