Dump & Run 2024 Announcement
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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.
Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP) Information
Waste Transfer Station Tour Form
Documents
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.
*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/.
All, I’ll venture that the rain/cold kept folks away most of the week. I attended an academic lecture about bike lanes on Thursday, and we made some progress on the bike barn clear out on Friday, despite the rain. Interviewed for a summer staff position. Signage/marketing is going up for direct donations of bikes in hopes that’ll lower the abandoned bike numbers. Fingers crossed!
The numbers:
Visitors: 18
Sales: $238
Memberships: 1 for $30
Tire/tube: 1 for $8
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
The Sustainability Council met on April 26, 2024. The primary agenda items included:
The slide deck is attached.
At Friday's Illini Lights Out event, 7567 light bulbs were shut off that otherwise would have been left on all weekend, saving $1,151 in energy costs. This also prevented 9.1 metric tons of CO2 equivalent from entering the atmosphere, which is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from 1026 gallons of gasoline being consumed. That's a huge impact!
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
All, Sorry for the delay, I was out yesterday. My staff tabled at the Sustainapalooza yesterday on the quad.
Elsewhere, our visitor numbers are creeping up and we had two people originally interested in renting our 1-person bikes but upon further consideration, opted to try out our tandem to great success. Our donations have anecdotally ticked upwards as well, which is fortuitous timing as we had exhausted our supply of used 26” tires.
Just received late notice about the RPC having an outreach/input session this afternoon on the Lincoln Avenue Corridor Study, which I’ll publicize to my staff and visitors. The more voices that can provide input, the better.
The numbers:
Visitors: 44
Sales: $682.65
Bikes: 4 for $675
Memberships: 2 for $60
Tires/tubes: 9 for $68
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
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:
The iCAP Engagement Team met on 04/18/2024 to review 2020 objectives, and discuss iCAP 2025 planning. The team will continue to add to the living documents and finalize them in May. The team also discussed the upcoming Sustainapalooza event.
CTAC meeting was held on Monday, April 15, 2024, focusing mainly on the Campus Bike Plan update. Please see attached the slides from meeting. To view the recording, please go to https://uofi.box.com/s/e50m8p6xzclztmf9grnzdt7bvloyo39e
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.
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.
Two options came out of our discussion:
All, Getting busier with the warmer temps. Working our way through a glut of single speed bikes, which are both easy to fix (thus far; knock on wood) and will be in demand come the fall. We’ve got around 20 or so bikes for sale, but the math is shifting from when we have more time to fix than help to now having more people in than down time to fix up bikes.
Over the weekend The Bike Project held a community ride, which I attended. Great weather for some bumpy road meandering!
The numbers:
Visitors: 26
Sales: $1,047.50
Bikes (refurb): 4 for $685
Memberships: 5 for $150
Tires/tubes: 12 for $96
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center
The attached PDF contains performance metrics for ZipCar usage on campus for March 2024.
Please see attached the Campus Bike Plan progress report FY24.
Read the Campus Bike Plan progress report FY23
The Transportation iCAP Team met on 4/10/2024 to discuss the final draft of the DESMAN study report, progress on the 2020 Transportation iCAP objectives, and potential 2025 Transportation iCAP goals. Attached is a link to the meeting recording.
Hi all,
We have completed all outdoor bin location proposals. With all the photos it is a large document, so I have placed it on a shared Box. Please let me know if any of these locations need further clarification
In response to your question below of completion by June 30 that is not possible. Also, without knowing all of the locations it is difficult to give you an answer as to what the completion timeframe would be. Below are the two scenarios depending on the proposed locations of the bins.
Installing the bins on existing concrete:
1. Ironworkers can go to the site with the bins/post with two guys and install the anchors and the bins in 2-3 crew hours (4-6 hours total with two guys).
Installing the bins on newly placed concrete:
1. This process will begin with the labor supervisor going to the site and marking the location. 1-2 hours
2. The utility marking crew would then be notified, and they have a 48 hour window to locate utilities. 1-2 hours
3. Laborers and operators go to the site and dig out the spot and place rock. 3-4 crew hours
4. Cement finishers form and pour the concrete and it needs to cure for at least 48 hours. 3-4 crew hours
5. Ironworkers can install the anchors and the bin once concrete has cured. 2-3 crew hours
Depending on how closely the locations are to each other they may prepare 2 or 3 at once and rotate through those with the different steps above. However, that is not always possible.
I hope this helps to see how the two differ in time needed and to see how it really gets involved when the location requires new concrete.
I wanted to reach out & reconnect on the topic of the black, metal outdoor bins. I believe we have 18 identified locations approved by Brent Lewis ready to be installed as soon as the shops are able (locations attached) – these all require concrete poured. We then have ~56 more stored primarily in the Buenting Barn that we have not yet identified locations for, but will very shortly. Some of them will require concrete and others will not. We have WO# 10814481 for this project. Pete is hoping to have the whole process wrapped up by June 30, 2024. I just wanted to put this back up on the radar and get a sense of whether we will be able to get these all installed by summer?
I will be in contact soon regarding the locations of the remaining bins.
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All, Slow week with the bad weather. This week looks better. Friday we’re helping with the Campus Recreation Walking Tour and so will show off our space to some folks that probably wouldn’t visit otherwise—that’ll be fun.
Also have a couple new staff starting this week.
The numbers:
Visitors: 14
Sales: $223.50
Memberships: 2 for $60
Tires/tubes: 4 for $35
Thanks!
Jacob Benjamin
Coordinator -- Campus Bike Center