2024 Dump & Run

Apr 12, 2024 | 9:36 am

Recycling containers will be available at the end-of-the-semester to take unneeded, gently used personal items.

Related Pages

• Waste Management & Recycling
• Zero Waste
• Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP)

Links

Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) Information

Waste Transfer Station Tour Form

Documents

2024 Dump & Run Location Map

The university’s end-of-the-semester Dump & Run ® event is expanding to multiple campus locations to make it easier for students and others at the U of I to donate unwanted personal items (no university property will be allowed) at the end of the semester and prevent useful belongings from reaching the landfill prematurely.

From Monday, May 6 to Sunday, May 12, eight 20’ x 8’mobile storage units will be placed near campus residence halls where students can put surplus or gently used items into bulk boxes inside the containers. Each day, the containers will be open for donations from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (see the container locations, schedule, and approved items list below). Throughout the week, the donations will be picked up by local participating charities Salt & Light, Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County, the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, and Goodwill.

CONTAINER LOCATIONS

• Barton Hall/Flagg Hall/Weston Hall/Student Dining and Residential Programs Building
• Florida Avenue Residence Halls (Oglesby Hall)
• Hopkins Hall
• Illinois Street Residence Halls (Wardall Hall)
• Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls (Allen Hall)*
• Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls (Babcock Hall)
• Sherman Hall

ACCEPTED ITEMS*

*Please note the transfer of university property will not be allowed. The management or disposal of university-procured items must be in accordance with all applicable State and U of I policies and guidelines (e.g., FABweb and the University Surplus Warehouse). For more information about those processes and operations visit https://www.obfs.uillinois.edu/equipment-management/surplus-warehouse-operations/.

• Accessories (handbags, belts, scarves, hats, etc.)
• Appliances – small to medium size (coffee makers, kettles, mini-fridges, microwaves, etc.)
• Books
• Collectibles/antiques
• Computers and equipment (printers, cables, speakers, hard drives, monitors, etc.)
• Clothing (rips and tears are okay – but must be washed)
• Electronics
• Food (nonperishable, unopened – even if past the expiration date)
• Furniture
• Housewares (dishes, mirrors, decorative accessories, etc.)
• Jewelry
• Linens
• Lamps
• Multimedia (DVDs, CDs, records, etc.)
• Shoes
• TVs (flat screen only)

PROHIBITED ITEMS

• Broken items (appliances, computers and equipment, furniture, housewares) etc.  – anything that is not really in selling condition
• Perishable or opened foods and beverages
• Mattresses or box springs
• Cleaning products
• Hazardous materials (paint, aerosols, chemicals, alcohols)

The Sustainability Council met on April 26, 2024. The primary agenda items included: 

• Updates
  • Green Research Program
  • Solar Farm 3
  • Plastic Waste Reduction in Housing and Athletics
• Student Group Activities
• Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP)
  • Progress & Challenges

The slide deck is attached.

The 2024 Arbor Day celebration was unfortunately canceled due to rain.  Please check back for a link to our Arbor Day Celebration Website.

Attached is information about the senior design project presentations scheduled for next Tuesday.

The project that we have been helping with is scheduled to present at 8:30 on Tuesday in 4100 LuMEB, Abbott Enerdrape System.

Mike Larson

Lowell Miller is updating a scope change for this grant to look at acquiring a machine to recycle 3d prints and other plastic that can then repurpose those materials into 3d printer filaments.

Please see attached the iWG meeting notes from the meeting held on April 19, 2024. The following items were discussed:

• Energy recommendation under development, “Energy Efficiency and Conservation Funding for Infrastructure and Mechanical System Modernization”
• iCAP challenges and opportunities

Michael McKelvey, Miriam Keep, and Sarthak Prasad met to discuss modifications to how projects are associated with recommendations and whether there are any modifications we'd like to make to the current setup.

Discussion/Decisions

• Recommendations:
  • Leave Associated Project(s) field as is - optional, allowing multiple projects to be associated
  • Add new field linked to a project where future updates can be found (naming it is tricky - "Further updates"? "See further updates"? "See additional updates"? "See ongoing updates"?) - optional, allows only 1 project
• iCAP Teams:
  • Add Associated Project(s) field - optional, allows multiple project to be associated
  • On any projects associated with an iCAP Team, show all the recommendations for that team (will be used on iCAP Team projects)

TODOs

• ✔️ Add new Further Updates field to Recommendation content type
• ✔️ Add new Associated Project(s) field to iCAP Team content type
• ✔️ Add new Recommendations listing to projects associated with an iCAP Team

Michael McKelvey and Sarthak Prasad met to discuss how to report Bike Fee funding in the iCAP Portal. The Bike Fee and SSC are currently the only student-initiated fees to report, but we should consider the possibility that new sustainability-related fees will need to be reported in the future as well.

Discussion/Decisions

Two options came out of our discussion:

1. Use the existing funding structure which was created early on in the iCAP Portal's development but isn't currently used. This structure requires entering each line item separately, which is powerful but laborious
2. Implement a new, simplified funding structure which allows a single entry per year for each type of allocation, but wouldn't allow individual line items for each expenditure within a category. This option is simpler, but less granular.

TODOs

• Michael will implement the new, simplified funding structure on a dev site so Sarthak can test both options and compare them.