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.

Hi!

I know the information might've been a lot, so here's just a quick summary regarding what is left to do:

• Reach out to the following universities to ask questions:
  
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Iowa
  •  University of Minnesota
  • Rutgers
  • University of Maryland
  • Illinois State University (ISU)
  • Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (SIUC)
  • Eastern Illinois University (EIU)
  • University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS)
  • Michigan State University

• See if we can get the contacts for UIS, SIUC, and EIU. I found the contact person for ISU, but I will need to find her email. I'll try to update the file if I can find it.
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• Set up meetings with Ohio State University and University of Michigan. I've already contacted them before but haven't gotten back to them regarding Zoom scheduling.
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• Any responses that you get regarding the survey should be filled out in the Big 10 spreadsheet located in this filepath: G:\Recycling & Waste\Big 10 Recycling

I bolded the main contact that you should email for each respective university. If someone else ends up answering, please make note of their contact info. You can use/adjust the introduction I already have typed up in the Box file labeled "Big 10 Survey" when contacting people. If you want me to do some of the contacting, just let me know.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions :)

From: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 15:44
To: Szal, Dominika Patrycja <dszal2@illinois.edu>
Subject: Hi!

This is my main email – feel free to send over anything about the Big 10 project here!

Daphne

From: Breitwieser, Steven <sbreit@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 2:16 PM
To: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>; Fancher, Matthew David <mfancher@illinois.edu>
Cc: Mahajan, Shreya <shreyam6@illinois.edu>; Szal, Dominika Patrycja <dszal2@illinois.edu>; Gordon, Malikah Asrayyah <magordon@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Recyclopedia

Daphne,

I took a look at this back in July. I can share my feedback on this from a content and communications perspective.

Let me know if you want to go over those aspects. I do think there are some updates that still need to be made.

Thanks.

Steve B.

From: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 12:50 PM
To: Breitwieser, Steven <sbreit@illinois.edu>; Fancher, Matthew David <mfancher@illinois.edu>
Cc: Mahajan, Shreya <shreyam6@illinois.edu>; Szal, Dominika Patrycja <dszal2@illinois.edu>
Subject: Recyclopedia

Hi Steve and Matthew,

I am reaching out to see if there is any status update on launching the Recyclopedia project? I have cc’d Shreya and Dominika, our F&S waste management interns, who have been involved in this project prior to my arrival.

Thank you!

Daphne Hulse (she/her)
Zero Waste Coordinator
Facilities & Services | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+1 (217) 333-7550 | dlhulse2@illinois.edu
 


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Art Schmidt from Civil and Environmental Engineering, reached out to faculty and students urging them to create a team made up of individuals from different disciplines/departments for the Rainworks Challenge. UIUC won this design competition in 2017 and Schmidt credits this success to the fact that the winning team was made up by many disciplines across campus. Schmidt explains that he is willing to serve as a faculty advisor for this challenge. 

Brent Lewis, Brian Chaille, CEE students and other individuals expressed great interest in creating this team. Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Mary Pat McGuire asked the following questions:

How can we use the competition to advance actual implementation of GSI here on campus? Do we need to identify funding to support implementation? Should we start a campaign for alum donations for implementation of projects? Can we revisit the 2015 2nd place winning master plan to explore the viability of that plan, and to add to it? Can we revisit the 2017 1st place winning design and explore the implementation of that proposal? What does a future 2022 winning proposal want to achieve for our campus that is new or different from those previous wins - and how can we get everyone on board with implementation?