Can looking at patterns of why people throw away what they do help universities improve their sorting stations and change what kinds of products they sell, to work towards a more eco-friendly campus? According to the University of Victoria’s waste reduction hub, their...
Trash Talk: A Garbology of the University of Victoria
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Garbology of UVic Anthropology Students: A Can-Do Attitude from the Can’tnadians
Introduction UVic's ANTH 392 ‘Things: Exploring Material Cultures’ asked us to use archaeological and theoretical frameworks to explore why humans use objects in certain ways, what objects we use, and why we give those objects meaning. One of the best ways to...
Waste disposal, sustainability, and COVID PPE
What can we learn about UVic’s trash sorting habits and the efficiency of provided disposal stations? When we decided to take this course, we had no idea how impactful and informative the term project would be. The idea of sorting through campus...
Trash Pandas
Introduction Trash is something that everyone produces, whether we are aware of it or not. However the question is, why do people throw away what they do and are they doing so correctly? Those are the questions we aim to answer as a class at the University of Victoria...
Something Stinks and It’s Not Just the Garbage: Trash Talkers Talk Trash
What do a backpack full of unused condoms and a Gymshark sports bra have in common? We found both of them in our garbage sample! Although our initial plan for this project was to look at Starbucks and coffee-related waste, but our project ended up focusing mainly on...
Competency & Contamination The Crux of Recycling
The Crux of Recycling: Competency & Contamination Hello, we are Courtney Baker and Kieran Giles and this blog is the culmination of the work done by our group, 'I Have a tRash', on the recycling habits at the University of Victoria. We gathered, analyzed...
Student’s Favourite Drink Adding Piles to Landfill: Old Hat Learns a New Trick
Hello, my name is Ege. I am 4th year University of Victoria (UVic) geography student doing a...
UVic’s Recycling Failure & Group Mentality
UVic's Recycling Failure & Group Mentality When we set out to explore waste sorting at the University of Victoria (UVic), we expected to find that UVic students and others at the University practice sorting quite well. The UVic website on sustainability even...
Trash Does Talk- But Only if You Listen (Blue Girl Group)
TRASH DOES TALK: BUT ONLY IF YOU LISTEN Jessi Rowse-Mercier is pursuing an undergraduate art degree...
Freya Harrison is a current undergraduate student at the University of Victoria pursuing a social science...