Hey Tom Merritt here, host of DTNS. We've got a special thing in the podcast feed today.

Molly Wood has started a new show called Everybody in the Pool. This is Molly at her best.

Talk it with people about how to solve the climate crisis. Not just complain about it.

I hope you enjoy the episode. And if you do, please add Everybody in the Pool to your

podcast app. And hey, if you'd like to get Molly on Daily Tech News Show more often,

help us hit 4,000 patrons so we can make that happen at patreon.com slash DTNS. Now everybody

in the pool. Welcome back to Everybody in the Pool, the podcast that dives deep into the

climate crisis and comes up with solutions. I'm your host Molly Wood. Oh, it's college

graduation season. So heartwarming, great job, everybody. You did it. You're headed off

into the world to make it a better place. A new crop of fresh-faced ambassadors of the

future will be headed off in the fall to follow in your footsteps of being climate-crimey

crime bags of unbelievable proportions. I'm sorry. I know you're just kids, but my God.

Everything you eat is take out. Your furniture is totally temporary. You get rid of everything

at the end of practically every year. There are all the parties. There are the events.

The red plastic solo cup pretty much exists for you, for your beer and your beer pong.

You're the worst. One study by an outfit called dump and run ink suggests that an average

college student produces about 640 pounds of solid waste per year, including 500 disposable

cups. Yeah. And 320 pounds paper. Crime bags. All right. All right. Don't take it so personally.

These campuses are a hotbed of waste, but on the plus side, colleges are aware of the

problem, perhaps more so than some cities. And many schools and even entire university

systems have been dealing with it for many years now or at least trying. The California

State University System started phasing out single-use plastics back in 2019. The National

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