RailSplitter Wind Farm provided the June 2023 Buyer's Share amounts by the hour, totaling 1,263.1 Megawatt hours.

The June 2023 Buyer's Share Report is attached below.

The attached image is a June 29, 2023 e-Newsletter from the Land Conservation Foundation.

Provided a basic overview of campus waste management, opportunities for tours, and zero waste objectives/initiatives

Attendance: Jake Slager, Shawn Patterson, Thurman Etchison, Jen Fraterrigo, Steve Breitwieser, Travis Tate, Shreya Mahajan, Daphne Hulse

Coke Updates:

• Jake is now officially solely focused on colleges and universities
• RVAT totes
  • Nothing charged for totes or for transportation
  • Chloroplast wrap and cut-outs are about $150 each x 20 = $3,000 (probably does not include transportation)
  • Keep these recycling only
  • 2-3 weeks lead time for wrap
  • Coca-Cola has the rendering for royal blue. Can make tweaks and changes
  • Couple $100 to edit or change the wrap design
  • Daphne’s to-do: Update QR code for new website
  • Make sure bins have clear messaging just for “bottles and cans”
  • These bins would be used for tailgating near to Memorial Stadium, ideally

Reusable Cups/Bottles

• Coke is supportive of reusable cups
  • Yeti sponsors for reusable cups
• Making an effort to push sustainability early in the college processes
  • Encourage use of reusable bottles
  • Use tap water from filler stations
  • Cut back on waste
  • Where there are purchases, ensure that the recycling bin is used
  • Ohio State’s effort with reusable bottles has been mixed success (MyCup program)
  • Indiana did something similar. It was costly and mixed results there, too
    • Jake will get more plugged in on these programs at different schools

Athletics

• • 100th year of Memorial Stadium
    • Ohio State did something similar with their 100th year
    • Sustainability can be incorporated in here, too

Engagement opportunities

• • GoGreen - Eric Green - not a large sample size
    • Jake talked with David Watson, who is in contact with Eric
    • Shreya’s experience as a student: without the incentive behind it, it’s not going to encourage students to regularly use it
  • Looking into Rockwire Illinois App to see how we can encourage plastic reduction

Welcome Week

• T-shirts
  • Mid July get the quantities for the welcome week
  • Orange shirt may fit well with giveaway items for tailgating

Bigger Conversations

• Path forward - Be Orange Go Green, Fighting Illini, Fighting Waste, Don’t Waste
  • How do we differentiate, make it clear to the public what is what?
  • Is tailgating a fighting illini, fighting waste event?

On June 26, UIUC sustainability representatives met to discuss the following:

Attendance: Shawn Patterson, Marty Kaufmann, Thurman Etchison, Bryan Johnson, Shreya Mahajan, Naveen Reddy, Daphne Hulse

1. Tailgating / Welcome Week

   1. Coca-Cola ordered 20 recycling bins (metal frame)

      1. Cost will come from the wraps, Jake gathering a quote

   2. Welcome Week Dining - planning meetings that zero waste could join?

      1. Moved to Grange Grove for this year

      2. Thursday, 13th at 9am next meeting (N end)

      3. Consider t-shirts for volunteers

2. Housing Insider Newsletter

   1. Housing marketing team willing to consider sustainability submissions for consideration in their newsletters, but likely not every edition

   2. Next steps from here? Think about Eweek, iNews, GradLinks as places to include sustainability information, get the larger population thinking about sustainability

3. Plastic waste reduction

   1. Gathering information, exploring strategies used by peer schools

   2. Aim - engaging/lighthearted

4. Wednesday 6/28 - meeting with Coca-Cola

   1. Discuss cost of wrap for 20 bins

   2. Assess where we are at with the shared budget

   3. Discuss volunteer shirts for tailgating & explore giveaway items/incentives

   4. Discuss volunteer shirts for Welcome Week

   5. Anything else to add to the agenda for Wednesday?

On June 26, 2023 Amy Fruehling, Jen Fraterrigo, and Daphne Hulse meet to follow up after initial contact with Redwood Materials

• Amy is the connector so she can stay involved if need be, but batteries are not her expertise

• Ask Stephanie Hess about DRS about battery disposal on campus is how much is recycled. See if departments have a need for this

• Collection drives would be for students, primarily, for their personal items

  • Ask Goodwill about technology collected from Dump and Run - was it a good outlet for students?

• IT would be more surplus-oriented

• Could payment be associated with batteries collected?

• Would just have to try it out and see if it’s worth it - we won't entirely know what the demand will be for the service

• ARC does battery recycling

  • Reach out about that

• Collection sites must be supervised so nothing is mixed in

• Housing or libraries as a place of disposal would be most ideal. Having it available rather than waiting on a collection drive once or twice a year, is Amy's thought

• Seema will be sending over material about how they have done collection drives in other places, so we know how it might run

• Electrical and computer engineering department

  • Specialization in batteries

  • Looking at how to create batteries with a longer life span

  • Do they have a program? Sell to students?

  • A way for iSEE to integrate campus sustainability and research, so Jen will take the first step here

• Redwood contact is an alum, co-founder is tied to Tesla - Amy notes the significance of this

  • Feels like there could be even more than just collecting batteries

• Opening up redwood materials collection to the community - because the spring electronics event is once a year in the spring, so sparse opportunity for the community/county

From: Hess, Stephanie Tumidajski <sthess@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2023 4:02 PM
To: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>; Hill, Landon E <landon@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: DRS battery disposal

Hi Daphne,

A good area to look into. I remember there being battery recycling a long time ago and then was told it was no longer is a thing.

We do not recycle batteries that come through DRS. Those are disposed of using our hazardous waste vendor. I’ve copied the regulated waste compliance manager on this email. He can probably give you an idea about the volume of batteries that come through our waste facility and answer your specific questions.

Steph

From: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2023 3:54 PM
To: Hess, Stephanie Tumidajski <sthess@illinois.edu>
Cc: Fraterrigo, Jennifer M <jmf@illinois.edu>
Subject: DRS battery disposal

Hi Stephanie,

A recurring topic that’s come up in sustainability conversations on campus has been about batteries, and we are working to assess what the needs are for this type of specialized recycling and for whom (campus property, personal, etc). In the past several years, battery recycling has been decentralized under departmental programs through companies like Battery Solutions and Call2Recycle for single-use and rechargeable batteries. I also understand that DRS disposes of departments’ unwanted batteries – I am curious, is this a program that is widely used by campus? Do most of the batteries collected under DRS get recycled?

Thank you,
Daphne

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


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