{"id":19975,"date":"2017-05-22T16:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/?p=19975"},"modified":"2021-05-21T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:33:36","slug":"sustainable-ways-to-reduce-waste-campus-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/sustainable-ways-to-reduce-waste-campus-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Out of Campus: Sustainable Ways to Reduce Waste by Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average college student discards <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaid.org\/blog\/curbing-the-college-waste-problem\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">640 pounds of waste<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> annually, with the bulk of the waste generated in May and June when students move out of campus at the end of a school year. Instead of taking their belongings &#8212; clothes, books, foods and even furniture &#8212; back with them, many students simply throw away these items. It\u2019s much easier to throw things away rather than lug them around, but this practice exacts a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/channel\/human-footprint\/trash-talk.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heavy toll on the environment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortunately, many universities and their students are making a concerted effort to help the environment by reducing the waste generated around this time of year, year in year out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"OSU aims for zero waste during student move-out\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xt5VTysUNr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this article, we highlight eight universities with strong sustainability ethos and their efforts to tackle the mountains of waste generated by students moving out of campus each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>1. Georgia Tech<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia Tech first adopted its annual Move-In\/Move-Out program in 1998 at the behest of Cynthia Jackson, the associate director of the Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson, who had just joined Georgia Tech and had experience with a similar program while she was employed at Auburn University, wanted to reduce the waste generated by nearly 10,000 students moving out each year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI saw a need to divert from the landfill reusable items that could help the life of others,\u201d said Jackson. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia Tech\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">effort was recognized in 2009 when it was <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuzz.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-recycling-program-wins-award\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">awarded first place<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Waste Reduction and Recycling category of the Keep Georgia Beautiful 2009 Awards Program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Office of Solid Waste Management &amp; Recycling makes recycling easy during Move-In by making bins easy to spot and convenient to use. Recycling bins for cardboard are placed on 31 recycling sites across campus residential areas to maximize recycling during Move-In. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During spring Move-Out, it is also easy for students to donate unwanted items instead of throwing them away. Collection sites are set up in convenient locations for students to place items, including paper, nonperishable food, clothing and household goods. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up until 2014, when Georgia Tech students got involved in the program, these items were sorted and donated to several local non-profit organizations, including Salvation Army and the Atlanta Community Food Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2014, however, Jackson and her team partnered with Tech Treasures, a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2016\/11\/21\/move-out-donations-support-students-need\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">student-led initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that brings Goodwill collection trucks to collect items that students don\u2019t want to take back with them, including futons, mini fridges and clothes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program started with Goodwill sending 3 trucks in 2014, which increased to 6 trucks this year. The Goodwill trucks, which are manned by Goodwill representatives from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., are placed in certain locations on campus for 5 days. To encourage donations, however, Georgia Tech staff make it possible for students to leave their donated items next to the Goodwill trucks after hours, which are secured and then transferred to Goodwill trucks. Georgia Tech doesn\u2019t have the details for 2017 Move-Out, which happened earlier this month, but reported that the program donated 14.4 tons of items to Goodwill in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, the Move-Out program also teamed up with Klemis Kitchen, an initiative to help hungry Georgia Tech students. Instead of sending nonperishable goods to Atlanta Food Bank, Jackson and her team send these items to Klemis Kitchen, which are then distributed to food-insecure students at Georgia Tech. While Atlanta Food Bank serves a need, Jackson thinks it\u2019s important to support Klemis Kitchen, as the food \u201cgoes from students to students.\u201d The 2016\u2019s Move-Out led to donations of 534 pounds of nonperishable food items to Klemis Kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>2. University of California, Davis<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At UC Davis, waste is treated as a resource so it\u2019s not surprising that it was the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainability.ucdavis.edu\/progress\/waste_reduction\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first university<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to set a \u201czero waste\u201d goal for a stadium when its new Aggie Stadium opened in 2007. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UC Davis aims for zero waste by 2020, so no trash (other than medical and hazardous waste from research and medical projects) would be sent to the landfill at all by then. It is estimated that the elimination of nonhazardous solid waste could save 6,779 tons from the landfill each year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The university\u2019s focus on campus waste reduction goes all the way back to 1975 with the opening of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aggiereuse.ucdavis.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aggie Reuse Store<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (formerly Bargain Barn), an on-campus thrift shop, to enable it to dispose of surplus property in a responsible way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another UC Davis sustainable program is <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/afs.ucdavis.edu\/our_services\/distribution-services\/aggie-surplus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aggie Surplus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which repurposes surplus equipment, furniture and supplies and sells them to university departments as well as the public. Aggie Surplus currently sells about 8,000 items and recycles around 120 tons of electronic waste each year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, UC Davis also focuses on the waste generated by students moving in and out of campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2014, a Move-In drive resulted in students recycling 16,638 pounds of cardboard and 487 pounds of packing foam, representing 61 percent of total waste that would have gone to the landfill, and a Move-Out drive led to students donating 16,840 pounds of items, including 2,362 pounds of nonperishable food. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/housing.ucdavis.edu\/sustainability\/springcleaning.asp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move-Out Donation Drive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be held from June 12-15. Non-food items will be donated to Goodwill and the Aggie Reuse Store, while nonperishable food items will be donated to Food Bank of Yolo County.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>3. Kalamazoo College<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kalamazoo College takes sustainability seriously; it is embedded in the college\u2019s culture, and constitutes one of its four Honor Code. The code, entitled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/studev\/stuconduct\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accepting Environmental Responsibility<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, mandates:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To maintain and improve the condition of our physical environment, we commit ourselves to the respectful and prudent stewardship of our community&#8217;s material and natural resources. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In keeping with its \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/green\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be light<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d motto, KC has many green <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/green\/campusinitiatives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">campus initiatives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/green\/campusinitiatives\/wastemgmt\/recycling\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recycling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June of each year, KC\u2019s Residential Life and Recycling collects items discarded by students moving out. These items are then brought to the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/recycling\/resourceexchange\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Resource Exchange Program (REP)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which holds clothing swaps throughout the year and summer furniture sale in July\/August, or are recycled. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KC also accepts donations of bicycles, refurbishes them, and rents them for free through its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/recycling\/helpingunderstandbikes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bike HUB<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>4. Bowling Green State University<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bowling Green State University plans to achieve <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/campus-sustainability.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carbon neutrality by 2040<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through energy efficiency and renewables, recycling and re-use initiatives, and student involvement and programming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In keeping with its second goal of waste reduction, BGSU\u2019s Office of Campus Sustainability first launched its annual &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/campus-sustainability\/recycling-waste-reduction\/move-out-dont-throw-out.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When You Move Out, Don\u2019t Throw It Out<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; (WYMO) initiative 16 years ago. WYMO is a campus-wide program to<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reuse and reduce waste. Students are encouraged to donate unwanted items, so long as they are still usable, instead of throwing them away when moving out of campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WYMO collects the items and donates them to charities, including Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity and Salvation Army. In 2016, it collected 17,590.6 pounds of items, a slight increase from the 16,285.8 pounds in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Office of Campus Sustainability also has a re-use initiative, which collects unused or unwanted items and offers them to the university\u2019s students, faculty and staff for free through periodic <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/campus-sustainability\/recycling-waste-reduction\/ReUse_Initiatives.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ReStore Thrift Sales<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>5. Brown University<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year, students at Brown University leave behind over 13,000 pounds of unwanted items at the end of the school year. Most of it is donated and not just thrown away, thanks to Brown\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.brown.edu\/articles\/2017\/04\/earth\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clean Break<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> initiative. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program runs for a month, starting late April or May, and continues through graduation. During that period, the EcoReps student group and the Department of Facilities Management work together to make it easy for students to donate clothes, household items and nonperishable. During last year\u2019s Move-Out, the program collected 13,365 pounds of clothes and almost 450 pounds of nonperishable food, which were then donated to Goodwill and local food banks respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s Clean Break <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/initiatives\/brown-is-green\/home\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">began on April 28<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with students being encouraged to donate unwanted clothes, shoes, books, art supplies, backpacks, lamps, mirrors, and other houseware items. Large bins were placed in key locations to facilitate donations. The program will in turn donate the items to Goodwill, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Providence Animal Rescue League, and the RI Food Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EcoReps student group also hosts four or more <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/initiatives\/brown-is-green\/student-resources\/green-packing-list\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">clothing swaps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> each year so students can get new clothes for free in exchange for their own clothes, thereby improving Brown\u2019s carbon footprint.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>6. Luther College<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luther College has implemented <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luther.edu\/sustainability\/recycling-waste\/reduction\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">many sustainable ways<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to reduce waste on campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Center for Sustainable Communities at Luther College works continuously with students, faculty, staff, and community members to find ways to reuse unwanted items. The Office Supplies Reuse Station, for example, collects supplies and makes it available for others to use. It is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, so students, faculty and staff can conveniently help themselves to binders, folders, notebooks, scissors, staplers, hole punchers, pens, pencils, paper clips, thumb tacks, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luther College also installed water bottle filling stations to encourage the use of reusable water bottles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Luther College adopted a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luther.edu\/sustainability\/recycling-waste\/moveout\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Move Out Mindfully<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program, which has helped reduce waste from students moving out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, the solid waste sent to landfill was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luther.edu\/sustainability\/about\/in-the-news\/?story_id=756824\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reduced to 27 tons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, compared to 42 tons in 2012. For this year\u2019s Move-Out, Luther College aims to further reduce the waste sent to the landfill by 20 percent from last year. It can accomplish that goal by filling 12 trucks of items to donate to thrift stores and donating 2,000 pounds of nonperishable food to food pantries. Donation rooms are set up in every residence hall on campus to make it easy for students to donate their unwanted items.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>7. University of Montana<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Montana has set a goal for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umt.edu\/sustainability\/campus-culture\/Eco%20Reps%202013%202014\/default.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carbon neutrality by 2020<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UM\u2019s Move-Out initiative is young but headed in the right direction. Started just 3 years ago, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the university\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.umt.edu\/2017\/05\/050317move.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campus Thrift<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program involves UM Sustainability, UM Recycling, the ASUM Renter Center and the Residence Life Office. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program relies on volunteers to collect donated items, sort them and then man the sale. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, students were able to drop off items at 6 collection sites from May 11 to May 13, which were then sold for a fraction of their price at the Campus Thrift sale on May 16. The sale proceeds, reportedly <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/local\/furnishing-homes-not-landfills\/article_df47cff4-f87a-5d46-90bf-f653d680c2b5.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between $2,000 and $3,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> each year,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be used for campus sustainability projects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past, sales proceeds <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were used partly to purchase water bottle refilling stations for the campus and to support UM\u2019s recycling program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe annual Campus Thrift is a fantastic way to make sure that totally useable items don\u2019t end up in a landfill,\u201d Mary O\u2019Malley, director of the ASUM Renter Center, said in a statement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe event also helps break the cycle of buying new every move. Students can donate items that worked in the dorms and pick up items that will help them set up a home off campus without breaking the bank.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UM will donate all unsold items to local thrift stores.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>8. Webster University<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Webster University has taken significant steps to become a more sustainable campus <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.edu\/sustainability\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">since 2009<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the arrival of President Stroble. It now prides itself on \u201ckeeping 13,000 tons of recyclable material out of the landfills.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The university is also making an effort to minimize waste from students moving out of campus. Each year, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.webster.edu\/webster-life\/2017\/green-move-out-week.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nearly 20,000 pounds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of waste ends up at the landfill during the Move-Out season. But Webster University Sustainability and Residential Life is making an effort to green the process. To encourage recycling of reusable items and unwanted electronics this year, Goodwill donation boxes and blue electronic recycling bins were made available in five locations during the week of May 8-12. In addition, there were recycling and landfill containers throughout campus. The initiative relied on volunteers to manage the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Webster University Sustainability and Residential Life also hosted its second\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.webster.edu\/webster-life\/2017\/swap-shop-2017.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swap Shop<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was held on May 16 this year, to find new homes for items generally discarded when students move out of campus. Students were urged to bring the items they wish to discard and exchange them for items that would be of use to them. The only caveat was that the items must be gently-used. Items made available at the Swap Shop included apparel and footwear, supplies (school, office, and art), and small furniture. The items were provided free to the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span id=\"m_-8865838068698095455gmail-docs-internal-guid-48420055-36c7-df39-120c-74d9dd6318ae\">\u201c<strong>Not only has thrifting become a popular form of up cycling clothing and style, but we often forget how necessary these kinds of opportunities are for people who have little other options to affordably acquire the items they need<\/strong>,\u201d said Kelsey Wingo, Webster University sustainability planner.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New or established, these universities and colleges\u2019 sustainable ways of keeping unwanted but reusable items away from landfills is crucial to the health of our environment. College students everywhere must be mindful of the waste they generate and join in the fight to reduce waste, whether in the course of moving in or out of campus or in their everyday lives. They should make it their practice to reuse and recycle items, rather than discard them. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average college student discards 640 pounds of waste annually, with the bulk of the waste generated in May and June when students move out of campus at the end of a school year. 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