Freezer Challenge, 2018 International- Launch email
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Projects Updates for place: Roger Adams Laboratory
EPS recycling at Dart; Departments to arrange transportation of materials
Associated Project(s):In July 2017, the vendor with whom the UIUC campus had partnered for EPS recycling was purchased by another vendor that was not able to continue the partnership. Central funding for transporting EPS to drop-off locations ended. Departments that had been participating in the Styrecycle program will be notified of the changed circumstances and will be encouraged to arrange their own transporation of EPS to the drop-off location at Dart Container, 1505 E. Main St., Urbana. There is no charge to drop off EPS at Dart. F&S is exploring options to provide an EPS recycling location on campus.
Archive of page content, Oct. 15, 2017
Associated Project(s):The following content was replaced with new program information on Oct. 15, 2017:
Description
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) now recycles expanded polystyrene (EPS), more commonly known by its brand name Styrofoam. By recycling this bulky material, we can reduce the volume of waste sent from campus to landfills and avoid the harmful environmental impacts of that practice.
The Styrecycle program was started in Fall 2015 and partnered with Community Resource Inc. (CRI) to bring EPS recycling to the UIUC campus. Our program can help you do your part to reduce the volume of waste campus sends to landfill — waste which will never biodegrade.
To find out more about Styrecycle, you can visit our website at: http://sustainability.illinois.edu/campus-sustainability/actionsinitiatives/styrecycle/
Or Like us on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Styrecycle
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University of Illinois EPS densifier
Associated Project(s):the densifier was picked up from the off-campus location at Midwest Fiber on Friday (September 22, 2017) and is currently in storage at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC)
program update
Associated Project(s):STYRECYCLE: During the spring 2017 semester, student volunteers collected more than 500 pounds of expanded polystyrene for recycling — bringing their total collected to nearly 900 pounds. In addition, this program is saying goodbye to a founding member and longtime leader. Thank you to Marco Tijoe for your two years of steering the ship!
Freezer Challenge launching January 15, 2017
Associated Project(s):U of I Campus Labs Encouraged to Join Freezer Challenge
Members of iSEE’s Energy Conservation & Building Standards Sustainability Working Advisory Team (ECBS SWATeam) invites U. of I. labs of all shapes and sizes laboratories on campus to register for the North American Laboratory Freezer Challenge, which uses friendly competition to optimize sustainability of freezer management in laboratories.
Any type of laboratory is eligible to participate by working at its own pace to implement optimal cold storage management practices that save energy. Participating labs from the Illinois campus will receive special recognition from iSEE at the annual Sustainability Week Celebration and find themselves one step ahead toward Green Lab certification, a proposed program being discussed on campus and at iSEE. The competition has updated the awards to include individual lab awards, including a picture in Nature!
Register by Jan. 15. More details can be found at the competition website >>>
SWATeam minutes May 9, 2016
Associated Project(s):Minutes from the Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling SWATeam on May 9, 2016. The meeting covered several topics, and was the last meeting with Bart Bartels in attendance.
Attached Files:edits needed to CAM policy on polystyrene products
Associated Project(s):http://cam.illinois.edu/vii/VII-b-11.htm F&S will talk with iSEE to consider edits to this policy, to incorporate reference to the new Styrecycle program.
Final Report completed
Associated Project(s):see attached report
Attached Files:Award Letter - Baseline Waste Characterization
Associated Project(s):The primary deliverable of this proposed project is to provide a detailed waste characterization assessment for three facilities located throughout the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls (LAR), Business Instructional Facility (BIF), Roger Adams Laboratory(RAL) are facilities that will be characterized.
This proposal builds upon the initial waste characterizations conducted in the Spring of 2013 for four buildings: Henry Administration Building, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, Swanlund Administration Building, and Illini Union Bookstore.
The objective of the assessments is to characterize the waste generated from a Lab building, a classroom building and a housing building. The primary goal of the waste stream characterization study is to provide UIUC with an accurate and precise baseline measurement of the solid waste generated at each facility type. ISTC will assist F&S in identifying and implementing practices and technologies that will reduce waste, increase landfill diversion, increase recycling revenues, and decrease waste disposal costs. These efforts will help UIUC to become an example of a sustainable campus, and will provide new learning and teaching opportunities for the university and community at large. The ancillary deliverables are various direct educational programing opportunities both structured as well as passive.Award Letter and Report - Styrofoam Densifier
Associated Project(s):This project is intended to permanently set up styrofoam (expanded polystyrene, or EPS) recycling on the UIUC campus for the first time. This project aims to emulate a very successful program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; some funding has already been secured for student support and supplies from UW as part of an EPA grant that students and postdocs there have received. The key difference between UIUC and UW is that UW had the benefit of a local styrofoam recycler, and UIUC does not have that benefit: the closest recycler is in Indianapolis and the cost of transporting undensified EPS is too high for this to be viable. This project will establish a partnership with Community Resource, Inc. in Urbana, who have agreed to handle all of the logistics of picking up styrofoam from large containers (“gaylords”) in campus buildings, transporting it to their site, feeding it into a machine called a “densifier”, and selling the densified material to a company in Chicago. Community Resource, Inc. will in return pay back a portion of the proceeds from the sales in order to support student interns on campus who will promote and support the program. The goal of this project is to establish a self-supporting program that will ultimately capture most of the styrofoam waste from our campus and recycle it, while supporting student interns to oversee and continually improve the program.
Attached Files:
Award Letter - Styrofoam Densifier 
Styrofoam_SSC_Report_Spring2015.docx
FW - SSC Phase 1 - Styrofoam Recycling.xlsx- FW - SSC Step 2 - Styrofoam Densifier - Quote.pdf
- FW - SSC Step 2 - Styrofoam Densifier - Support Letter 1.pdf
- FW - SSC Step 2 - Styrofoam Densifier - Support Letter 2.pdf
- FW - SSC Step 2 - Styrofoam Densifier.xlsx
Community Resources Inc interested in partnering with iSEE
Associated Project(s):On 12/03/2014 03:06 PM, Bartels, Bart A wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I just concluded a conversation with Matt Snyder of Community Resource Inc (CRI). He is very interested in housing a densifier. I am going to set up a meeting with him to work out the details and get pricing. This is going to be the proposal based on his interests and our needs:
Participating buildings will have a Gaylord on the dock for EPS dropoff. CRI will pick up the gaylords and take the material to their facility, where the densifier or compactor will be housed. Matt will take care of paying the labor for pick-ups, processing, and sales. He will be paid out of the sales revenue with part of the revenue coming back to us. The money coming back will pay for interns that will facility more EPS collection. The meeting will determine responsibilities and how the revenue will be divided.
I am hopeful that we can work out acceptable terms. Matt wants to make this work. He said he shipped out a truck load of EPS this morning, even though it didn’t make sense. I will let you know when the meeting is to take place.
Bart
Inquiry from Wisconsin
Associated Project(s):Craig H. Benson, the Director of Sustainability Research & Education, at University of Wisconsin-Madison, www.sustainability.wisc.edu contacted iSEE about potentially partnering on an EPS recycling program.
Attached Files:Gregory Hall
Associated Project(s):As part of the ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit, 426 T-12 fixtures in Gregory Hall were replaced with the more energy-effiecient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 68,862 hours. The simple payback for this project is -4.1 years. There are 777 T-12 fixtures in Gregory Hall remaining to be switched.
David Kinley Hall
Associated Project(s):As part of the ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit, 858 T-12 fixtures in the David Kinley Hall were replaced with the more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 84,223 hours. The simple payback for this project is -5.36 years. There are 54 fixtures that remain to be done in David Kinley Hall.
Morrill Hall
Associated Project(s):As part of the ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit, 195 T-12 fixtures in Morrill Hall were replaced with the more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 25,781 hours. The simple payback for this project is -4.45 years. There are 2,594 T-12 fixtures in Morrill Hall that remain to be switched.
Lincoln Hall
Associated Project(s):As part of the ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit, 1,728 T-12 fixtures in Lincoln Hall were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 99,886 hours. The simple payback for this project is -8.03 years.
Vet Med Basic Sciences Building
Associated Project(s):As part of the ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit, 4,248 T-12 fixtures in the Vet Med Basic Sciences Building were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 796,429 hours. The simple payback for this project is 0.11 years.
Vet Med Large Animal Clinic
Associated Project(s):As part of the ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit, 1,990 T-12 fixtures in the Vet Med Large Animal Clinic were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 320,117 hours. The simple payback for this project is 0.23 years.
Vet Med Small Animal Clinic
Associated Project(s):As part of the ICECF 2009 Lighting Retrofit, 1,928 T-12 fixtures in the Vet Med Small Animal Clinic were replaced with more energy-efficient T-8 fixtures. This switch will incur an Annual kWh Savings of 67,145 hours. The simple payback for this project is 0.83 years.