Facilities & Services collaborates with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) to encourage University of Illinois faculty, staff, and students to use the various services provided by MTD. This event is held at least once every year re-starting in Spring 2020. This event will consist of a 30 minute presentation and then a 30 minute bus ride to a pre-determined destination. There will also be a survey and a comments section as a part of the event.

Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste is typically generated during a major capital renovation project or a building demolition.  It can also be generated during a smaller alteration project, which may be completed by F&S crafts and trades or by an outside contractor.  

Dining Services at University Housing is certified as a Green Restaurant by the Green Restaurant Association. Great job, Dining! 

The goal of this project is to make plastic bag and film recycling more accessible to the campus community. 6 collections bins have been set up at 4 different buildings. After evaluation of the current setup, more drop-off locations may be added or changed. 

By completing this project, Plastic Bag Recycling will offer multiple benefits such as:

Yanfeng Ouyang (Professor), Shelly Zhang (Professor), and their PhD students from the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are collaborating with Facilities and Services to develop a model to optimize the pedestrian flow on the Quad Day 2020.

The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) is responsible for leading campus sustainability efforts. To set an example for students, faculty, and staff, iSEE is proposing a markable — and visible — program that will reduce waste and beautify campus.  
 

For this years climate summit, we've been working with the Independent Media Center (IMC) and the Urbana Park District to plan a youth summit on sustainability for this spring, though due to COVID-19 we've been forced to reschedule. During this time we have been working with WRFU to create a podcast in which we interview influential members in the community on climate change as well as COVID-19 response.

The CU Youth Sustainability Committee, which is made up of local high school students, hosted their first CU Youth Sustainability Summit on Saturday, October 13th, 2018. This summit focused on Climate Change and the importance of Local Sustainability.

The Design for America students are leading a project to develop solutions to reduce plastic film waste.  They have contacted Morgan White at F&S and BK Sharma at ISTC to provide guidance as faculty advisors.

To reach our 2015 iCAP objective of 140,000 MWh per year of clean energy usage, we will need to increase our off-campus procurement of clean energy by 90,000 MWh/year.  One proposed solution is to enter into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with an off-campus solar developer.  This potential project is often called "Solar Farm 3.0" and discussions are ongoing about the costs and benefits of this proposal.