BY PRENTISS FINDLAY
The Post and Courier
Local News
Stinky project helps students make point
Posted:
11/03/2009 11:28 PM
A dozen College of Charleston students went Dumpster diving on campus Monday to make a point: There's a whole lot of useful stuff that gets thrown away.
It's a gross job. Maggots, bugs and the stench inside the dumpsters were the price members of Alliance for Planet Earth paid to get at recyclable materials.
"The smell is definitely horrendous," junior Brian Vanderschauw said.
And that's not all. "It's dark and sticky," senior Lesley Laudman said.
While talking about what to get for lunch, the students wore rubber gloves and sifted through piles of sour-smelling trash at a heavily trafficked area between the Robert Scott Small Building and Maybank Hall. There was a lot of plastic and paper and a collection of oddities. Two bags of pennies, a toilet, what appeared to be the long, black legs of a Halloween spider costume, a gum ball machine, unopened food and "vomit bags" were among the more unusual items found in 10 dumpsters at the college, the students said.
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