This is the 12th annual conference held at UIUC for linguistics research. This team is trying to make this conference more sustainable by reducing waste through encouraging the conference attendees, both from UIUC and from other universities, to bring their reusable water bottles and reuse name tags from previous conferences. This team is not printing programs, buying less materials (notebooks, pens, folders, etc.) not using disposable plates, cups and utensils during the snack breaks.

The UIUC Union Catering Services charges $2.50 per person for reusable dishware. This team will use funding to pay for this fee for 4 snacks over the course of the two-day conference for 75 people, which amounts to $750. The desired outcome for this more sustainable conference is to show conference attendees that conferences can be more sustainable and by encouraging other conference planners and attendees to be similarly sustainable