NYC colleges push back on trash with swap shops — where students can furnish dorm rooms for free: ‘Making a difference’
NY Post
Shop ’til you swap.
When Shannon Hughes saw the piles of discarded dorm-room furnishings that her fellow New School students ditched at the end of every school year, she always felt there had to be a better way to keep the scads of unwanted shower caddies, hangers, laundry baskets and lamps out of university dumpsters.
Then, in the spring of 2024, the senior film major decided to apply what she’d learned in a class entitled “Waste Injustice,” which focused on the outsized trash burden reportedly borne by lower-income areas, and how to address the imbalance.
Eager to do her part, Hughes recruited a few friends to help her go dorm to dorm, collecting every item she could, aiming to set up the school’s first-ever pop-up swap shop, ahead of the fall semester.
“I grew up in Vermont, where you give people the stuff you don’t need or you try to recycle it,” the 21-year-old told The Post. “Doing this reminds me of home and makes me feel like I’m making a difference in somebody’s life.”
On Saturday, Hughes will run The New School’s second annual “Free Sale,” a one-day-only event in the University Center building, open to anyone with a New School ID.
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