Dumpster

Dr. Jeff Wilson, otherwise known as Professor Dumpster, resides in a modern dumpster behind the women’s dorm at Huston-Tillotson University.

‘Professor Dumpster’ has turned a big trash bin into a tiny home

Environment

Dr. Jeff Wilson, an environmental science professor known as Professor Dumpster, is giving “the 1 percent” new meaning: He’s planning to try to live using 1 percent of the energy and water and creating 1 percent of the waste of the average American home — by living in a converted dumpster.

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