Show Collecting Garbage Aids With Thesis Carroll Latham served as trash collector for 20 Cache Valley families for two She wasn't paid for her garbage collecting but the information she gathered provided material for her master's thesis at Utah State who is now serving as supervisor of the Extension Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program for Weber and Davis decided to do the study after coming across a report that the average individual discards over two and one half pounds of paper per For the Latham involved 20 families of five persons The families saved all of their discarded papers for including can food containers and any other paper EVEN gave the families toilet tissue and weighted the unused she commented on the thoroughness of the paper collection kids in a family were especially good in seeing that every little scrap of paper was collected for Latham WHAT WERE the conclusions following the Number one would have to be that Cache Valley residents fall far below the national average in their paper discarding HIGHEST weight of paper discarded by one family during the two-week period was 55 six And that amounts to only approximately 12 and one-half ounces per person per Latham She that the lowest paper weight collected during the two week period from one family was just slightly over 12 average for the was 22 11 for the two she LATHAM feels that there are several significant reasons for the discrepancy in the national figures and in her Primary among them would be the fact that 63 percent of the families participating had home gardens preserved at least 50 percent of their and percent of the families canned some of their Another factor she noted was the weight of the local newspaper-only two and one-half ounces daily compared to 11 and one-half ounces for the daily New York only seven magazines were discarded during the study THE PROJECT revealed to Latham that families with working had more paper waste than families where the mother stayed at convenience foods means more paper containers and she pointed Latham reported that the families participating in the study really got pointed out to them the need for recycling paper products and also the lack of any reclamation efforts in the she OBLIGING Woman to husband as she arrives in auto with smashed the policeman was so nice about He asked if I'd like for the city to all the telephone |