On September 26, UIUC sustainability representatives met and discussed the following:

Attendance: David Guth, Daphne Hulse, Marty Kaufmann, Shreya Mahajan, Meredith Moore

• Point person for athletics? Tom Divan for facilities at State Farm Center and Marty Kaufmann for general discussion.

• And on our end, who is in charge of this? We are all a part of the same umbrella group:

  • Monday meetings, are part of the U of I campus.

  • Wednesday, is the coke people.

  • F&S and iSEE are seeing this through on the U of I side.

• We work closely with Tim Knox (zero waste recommendation).

• Communication-side: DIA will work on that.

• Tom Divan will know more about State Farm Center, Tim Knox will know more about garbage and recycling component holistically.

• Does athletics have the temporary bins from Coca-Cola?

  • Marty needs to follow up with this (it might be more through concessions). They have some, but probably not the new ones. Also, the general waste bins did NOT have the blue plastic bags. The bins with Coke DO have the blue plastic bags.

  • The bins need to be landfill and recycling duos. Need to prepare this for the game day.

• Digital signs for the zero waste game:

  • Don’t Waste, or support the iCAP as a display on the digital sign?

  • 15-30 second announcement once or twice throughout the game, to remind people that it’s important to recycle.

  • Based on prior calls, Marty had gone to marketing and game ops people to hold some time for announcements.

  • Graphic can be used on exterior signage and video board. Could have a couple short PAs. This communications stuff runs through Marty.

• 8pm game. Engaging student group volunteers. Marty could get them access/pass list.

• David Guth: Coca-Cola products - Is that going to be in a standard container, or will it be a plastic?

  • Marty: aluminum bottles for beer, plastic bottles for Coke as far as concessions goes. Question for Jake. Marketing funds sometimes go to green shirts for student volunteers. We may have used funds already, but can ask.

  • Shirts that say Illini go green, maybe a Coca-Cola logo?

• How many volunteers used in the past? Marty says he would think a dozen or two would make a difference. If they could be paired up, more outgoing and comfortable. (12 pairs, for example).

• Green Quad Day that week. SSC, SSLC, illini union board, Dave will reach out.

• Giveaways? Caught green handed. Give a prize for recycling.

• Meredith can prepare a spreadsheet for the volunteer list.

  • Cloud based.

  • Wait to publish list, to make sure they can get a t-shirt and a ticket.

• Leveraged email blasts, athletic websites, season ticket holders to let them know in advance.

• A lot of water is purchased. Marty would guess it would be comparable between plastic and aluminum.

  • Can we estimate how many blue bags they get versus waste?

  • Shreya: they do bails, so we don’t split up waste based on bags.

  • Everything is weighed in and weighed out, so we have data. The thing would be to segregate this game’s waste. It’s not a big game, it’s a pre-season game.

• Could we compare this volume of recycling from the week before vs this November 14 event?

  • Segregate the game waste. It may be possible.

• Students at football games will go through stands, can this be done at the basketball game?

  • Tom Divan would know. Could be ok, could be a union issue. Staff and extra help does that. Sometimes they do it the next day. Maybe stay away from. Probably ok during the event.