Laurie Baker and a couple of her colleagues ripped into dozens of bags of garbage April 22 and each pulled out money – piles of it.
It was part of an ongoing trash audit program by the 21st Civil Engineer Squadron. Ms. Baker and three others were charged with finding out how much recyclable material was in those bags of garbage – cardboard, paper, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, said Ms. Baker, Booz Allen Hamilton environmental consultant working with the 21st CES.
“Every one of those boxes being thrown into the trash, it’s money just being thrown away,” she said.
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