Six Objectives: Facilitate communication, facilitate collaboration, provide a forum for student leaders to voice their opinions to iSEE and thereby to the campus administration, help identify students who can serve on iSEE working groups or advisory groups, help identify potential interns, encourage more awareness about sustainability among student body
Unofficial objective: Create political will/pressure to implement sustainability initiatives
The Facebook page for the Game Day Recycling Challenge has been launched. For the October 25th homecoming game we will be setting up 3 bin stations throughout the stadium for recycling, compost, and landfill. All collected weights will be reported to the Game Day website for the national competition. More details to follow.
The University is participating in its first Game Day Recycling Challenge at the October 25th homecoming game against the University of Minnesota. For the event the usual landfill bins will be replaced with 3-bin stations to separate landfill, recycling, and compost. The materials collected will be weighed, the diversion rate calculated, and then entered into a friendly national competition. To volunteer for this event, please email Bart Bartels at bbartel@illinois.edu.
I just want to thank you and the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics for the opportunity to compete in the Gameday Recycling Challenge. As we discussed, we are committed to reducing environmental impact from the October 25th game against Minnesota. What a great way to finish Campus Sustainability Week!
As I mentioned, the event will be take place in the stadium and it is my responsibility to recruit volunteers, set up 3 bin stations, add signage, and replace everything by Sunday afternoon. Here is a link to the website that I mentioned. http://gamedaychallenge.org/
I will immediately begin planning out the details.
