Good morning BTAF,

 Hope everyone’s year is off to a good start!

At the last BTAF Waste Affinity group meeting in October, the group members shared many exciting initiatives and programs related to recycling and waste diversion. Over the past few months, a working group has developed a comprehensive benchmarking survey to facilitate knowledge sharing and to organize program information. So, now we need your participation in the Waste Survey [redacted].

 At the suggestion of Nicole Berg, a google spreadsheet format was chosen for ease of use, as well as the ability to update the survey each year. In the link, you’ll find two tabs on the survey:

1. Waste Survey: Broad swath of questions related to Zero Waste and Recycling, including strategic planning, outreach, waste management operational processes, waste metric tracking, procurement, athletics, organics, medicine/research labs, and surplus. This an “everything and the kitchen sink” approach to enable comparative analysis.  
2. Diversion Rate Methodology: One question that continues to bubble up from time to time is, “What do you include in your diversion rate?” This survey tab requests that you mark a “x” next to each category that is included as diversion in your annual diversion rate report.   

 Three schools have already filled out the survey, so our hope is that it’s intuitive to follow along and to input your school’s information. If you have any clarifying questions, feel free to shoot me an email. We ask that each school completes the survey by Friday, February 13th.

 Once the data is collected, an intern will compile the data, and we will share the results in another BTAF Waste Affinity Group meeting at a date TBD—probably in March.

 Shout out to the team, including Tony Gillund (Purdue), Patrick Brown (Purdue), Daphne Hulse (Illinois), Dominika Szal (Illinois-intern), Nicole Berg (Michigan), and Alison Richardson (Michigan).

Mary

Mary Leciejewski
Zero Waste Manager

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers 

Facilities Operations and Development, Sustainability & Strategic Services
1130 Service Building Annex | 2578 Kenny Road, Columbus, OH 43210
(O) 614.292.3637
fod.osu.edu/sustainability

From: Fancher, Matthew David <mfancher@illinois.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 7:26 AM
To: Varney, Pete <pvarney@illinois.edu>; Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: Recyclopedia Changes

Hi Pete,

Of the requested changes we can resolve 3 of them.

  *   Add pages and have 20 items on each page – NOT POSSIBLE
  *   Create a "featured" portion at the top of the page - POSSIBLE
  *   Have information on an object show when clicking the picture (right now it just enlarges the picture) - POSSIBLE
  *   Make pictures centered - POSSIBLE

I put some time in last Friday, and will hopefully be able to resolve these this coming Friday with a bit more time.

Thanks,

MATT FANCHER
Associate Software Developer 
 
IT Services | Facilities and Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mfancher@illinois.edu
www.fs.illinois.edu

Done:

• Set up GA4
• Homepage: make image in Image Gallery go to image gallery (in addition to button)
• Objectives page: Jump to Chapter migrated to live site
• (DEV) Currently testing a new way of selecting a Project's location in the menu system. Dropdown list is becoming unmanageable.

Discussion:

• Question about a TODO: "Collections page: Add image upload option". At a previous meeting we had this TODO, but what was the context? Was it to have a thumbnail for each Collection? Or a banner image?
• Should we link to "Take Action" project from homepage?
• Archiving projects

TODO:

• (DEV) Currently testing a new way of selecting a Project's location in the menu system. Dropdown list is becoming unmanageable.
• Add LinkedIn & Reddit share buttons on Project Updates
• Can we add social sharing buttons on Projects too?
• Search: can it be less rigid? e.g. ignore punctuation, understand that "bikes" and "bicycles" are equivalent, etc.
• Fancy project layout mockups - keep tweaking #3 to improve contrast
• Discuss metrics
  • Metrics with lots of data
  • Consider how to handle old metrics that no longer track new data. Archive somehow?
  • Fun with math (e.g. combining multiple metrics)
  • Calculated Metrics on Dev site
• Track down and resolve informational message on full listing page for Project Updates by Key Objective (see, e.g. Projects Updates for key objective: 1.0 iCAP 2020 Illinois Climate Action Plan)

Following are Jen's comments:

1. Currently, there is limited public level 2 charging on campus and in the vicinity of campus. Yet we have many visitors to campus who are coming from out of town and may therefore need to charge their vehicle while here. If chargers are (only) added to parking permit facilities, visitors will not have access to them.
2. Related to the point above, it is unclear if faculty, students, and staff who do not hold a permit for those facilities (but may hold a permit for other parking areas or may not hold a permit at all) will be able to use the chargers.
3. I wonder if the analysis could take into account commuter driving distance when estimating demand. Many of us with EVs charge at home and rarely need to charge while on campus because the trip is within the range one can travel on a full charge. Consequently, the demand could be lower than expected.
4. Finally, I think it is important to evaluate the spatial distribution of potential charging locations. We should aim to distribute these in an way the serves all of campus. It is possible that parking facilities are evenly distributed and thus chargers will be as well, but this is not clear from the parking study.