John Kane wrote:
> On Aug 11, 6:56 pm, Gloria P > wrote:

>> A local TV station did a story on college recycling in Boulder after
>> summer school ended. It showed kids in station wagons pulling up
>> and retrieving things like expensive skis, TVs, computer monitors,
>> loads of furniture, etc.
>>
>> One of the summer school kids said "I had no way to get the stuff home
>> so I had to just pitch it."
>
> Very normal here. At least one year the local university had its own
> recycling station in a large parking lot. Still someone I know picked
> up 18-20 vcrs that students had abandoned on the lawns of their
> houses. Computer monitors were all over the place. One usually only
> saw furniture every three or four houses.
>


The Boulder police have cracked down on an old Boulder tradition and
greatly reduced it this past spring.

The students who live off campus on "the Hill", a very popular party
animal area, traditionally hauled sofas and other upholstered furniture
into the middle of the streets and set them afire as a celebration when
finals were over.

An older tradition had students take unwanted but serviceable furniture,
electronics, and household items to a local warehouse where they were
sold very cheaply to the next year's users. I believe the warehouse
burned down about 15 years ago and no one else has stepped up.

gloria p