The Zero Waste iCAP Team met on Thursday, March 31 to de-brief the Plastics Reduction Strategy discussion, review committee member research on the Adopt-a-Highway/Adopt-a-Drain and Composting Committee Recommendations, and begin discussion on amending the Campus Administrative Manual's Paper Policy. Meeting minutes are attached.
The Zero Waste iCAP Team met on Thursday, March 31 to de-brief the Plastics Reduction Strategy discussion, review committee member research on the Adopt-a-Highway/Adopt-a-Drain and Composting Committee Recommendations, and begin discussion on amending the Campus Administrative Manual's Paper Policy. Meeting minutes are attached.
The Zero Waste iCAP Team met on Thursday, November 11 to review some data related to vending machine quantities and pouring operations, analyze the initiatives of some other universities, and begin discussing our campaign strategy. As some initial steps, the team devised some questions for a campuswide survey on drinking water behavior and discussed a recommendation to begin tracking drinking water filter stations on campus. Meeting minutes are attached.
The Zero Waste iCAP Team met on Wednesday, November 3 to prioritize recommendations for this semester and plans for next semester. The team has decided to move forward with a drinking water campaign to recommend by the end of this semester, and the committee will break out into sub-teams for the upcoming semester based on several other working recommendations. Meeting minutes are attached.
On Friday, October 1 the Zero Waste iCAP Team had their first meeting of the semester! The team discussed progress on last year's recommendations, zero waste initiatives from F&S, and the iCAP Objective Assessment for Zero Waste. Meeting minutes are attached.
iSEE's Interim Director Madhu Khanna sent the Zero Waste iCAP Team a formal charge letter on Tuesday, September 14 detailing their campus sustainability duties this academic year. Full letter is attached.
All:
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During this meeting, the PWR SWAT Team coordinated with Marya Ryan, the new Zero Waste Coordinator. We discussed previous campus efforts for multiple different projects like composting and recycling as well as introduced ourselves to one another.
The SWAT Team also was updated on progress with reviewing the Paper Policy Draft comments and will finish this review by next meeting.
Furthermore, a discussion of composting efforts on campus was discussed and an effort to create a comprehensive map of waste pickup routes will be created.
At the PWR SWAT Team meeting on March 15th, the team debated over the message in the new Ethics Compliance Message concerning recycling standards and rules. The team decided that two videos should be created, one with base instructions for recycling, the other for explaining the commonly misunderstood paper policy. The team will look more into the paper policy draft and suggest a new paper policy for the campus.
Article written by Mikayla Johnson, a student at UIUC.
Here is a link to the article: https://thetab.com/us/illinois/2016/04/13/need-talk-destroying-campus-1408
Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Campus Waste Study
"We are conducting some research on the campus waste hauling process and I am looking for some help. I need workers for a project that will last for one week, paying $10 per hour. In this project I am looking for people to ride along on the waste collection routes to record how full the dumpsters are prior to being emptied. I have three routes to cover. The first starts at 3am and runs until 11:30am. The other two routes start at 6:30am and run until 3pm." - Bart Bartels
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (IL DCEO) formally approved the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2015 Waste Reduction Plan.
Tracy,
Here is an update and overview from our conversation this morning.
Hi Tracy,
Plans are coming together for the waste audits so let me give you the latest.
1. We will start by auditing BIF on the week of October 5-9. Kari Cooperider is our contact. Everything is in place at this venue. Bin mapping has already been done.
2. The Illini Union will be audited the week of October 12-17. Dave Guth and David Parker are our contacts. They are working to have Area provide them with a roll off for that week. Bin mapping has been done. They are already looking to purchase new bins and change signage.
The Waste and Purchasing SWATeam briefly discussed the policy but didn’t feel empowered to act on it.
A Zero Waste Plan has been drafted for the Urbana-Champaign campus at the Univeristy of Illinois. The plan is currently being reviewed by the Purchasing and Waste SWATeam. Once agreement is reached, the document will be forwarded to the Sustainability Working Group for consideration of implementation.
All,
I stumbled onto the University of Oregon’s Zero Waste Toolkit (see below). I think it aligns closely with what we are trying to put together. It has templates for a pledge, ZW policy, and strategies for a plan. Check it out. Please share your thoughts.
http://zerowaste.uoregon.edu/PDFdocuments/ZeroWasteToolkit.pdf
Bart
Hello waste SWATeam and Ben,
As you know, the iCAP called for a Zero Waste Policy to be developed, and we have a draft for a CAM policy (attached).
I’m not sure a CAM policy is the best solution, so I asked around for information about where campus policies usually reside and I was given the following info. As the SWATeams are approved to move forward to the next phase, it would be great to have iSEE and the iCAP SWATeam take the lead on getting a formal Zero Waste Policy adopted.
The Executive Director of Facilities and Services approved hiring a Zero Waste Coordinator today. This will be a half-time academic hourly position, working with Tracy Osby at the Waste Transfer Station and Morgan Johnston in Sustainability. The candidate has been selected, and the job description is attached here.
