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Sad day for local Styrofoam recycling. 🙁 Dart Corp is closing at the end of this year. They reached out to me to request that I update our website info re: Styrofoam recycling.
He said the Styrofoam drop-off will remain open until Friday, Sept 29th.
From Kathy's Mailbag in today's News-Gazette:
On August 7, 2023 Amy Rosenbery sent the following email:
Hi Morgan!
I’m working on our inventory and the Foam Compacting machine that Ben purchased in 2015 is on our list.
Do you know if this equipment went to ISTC? I don’t know who has this or where it’s located. It used to be on the 2nd floor here at NSRC but it’s not there anymore.
Best,
Amy
Dart Container at 1505 E. Main St., Urbana, accepts expanded polystyrene (EPS), more commonly known by its brand name Styrofoam, for recycling. Departments are encouraged to take EPS there to recycle this bulky material. By doing so, we can reduce the volume of waste sent from campus to landfills and avoid the harmful environmental impacts of that practice. There is no charge to drop off EPS at Dart for recycling.
There is currently no central funding source to pay for transportation of EPS to Dart, so departments need to arrange transport independently.
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.
The following content was replaced with new program information on Oct. 15, 2017:
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 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)
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!
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
