The Illinois Natural History Survey inquired about participating in the glove recycling program in April and agreed to be listed in the iCAP Portal as a participating location. They were added as a location on May 6, 2018.

Recommended locations for dual bins for outdoor trash and recycling collection were identifed in February 2018. Locations were indicated on an updated version of the map of the outdoor bin locations that was completed in September 2017.

Hi Pete and Shawn—

Zero-waste activity this past week was as follows: 

• I emailed the BER volunteers who had contacted Morgan over the winter to let them know that we can use their help with promoting the glove recycling program to nonparticipating departments. In March, I obtained a report from Jeremiah Yokley at OBFS listing all the UIUC departments that have purchased nitrile gloves. Morgan and I want to enlist the student volunteers' help in looking up a contact person in each department in the report and then doing some outreach to those that are not yet participating. I emailed them Thursday to see if any of them will be available over the summer or whether the effort will have to wait until next fall. 
• I posted a privately viewed update on the iCAP Portal Glove Recycling page with Jeremiah's name and email address and a description of the report he provided.
• I added a graphic to the glove recycling participation web form for Morgan's review.
• I added the Natural History Survey to the iCAP Portal as a glove recycling participation location. 
• I updated and sent Morgan a spreadsheet with the numbers of outdoor bins that I mapped last summer and fall (with a substantial head start on the Quad area, thanks to Ryan and Brent!). I added the numbers of bins that Fangxing recommended be replaced.
• I pulled cost information on bin replacement from an email from Ryan and set it up in a spreadsheet. I have an email out to Morgan for further information to plug in. 

Best regards,
Marya Ryan
Zero Waste Coordinator

Cary Adams met with Morgan White to discuss options for a PSM internship this summer.  He is going to complete an update to the plans for campus to consider an anaerobic digester in ACES facilities, specifically for the Dairy Farm relocation that is shown in the Master Plan.

The committee approved to extend the Fly Ash Phosophorous Filtration funding agreement through Summer 2018.

Design for Democracy funding proposal submitted to SSC.

Student submitted roughly $58,000 for lighting improvements. 

Student submitted Paradigm for Food Waste to Biofuel and Biomaterial project to SSC. 

Student submitted Solar at Master Gardener Idea Garden project to SSC.

Classroom LED Upgrades project submitted to SSC.

Bevier Hall Occupancy Sensors project submitted to SSC.

Geothermal exchange for greenhouses at WPP project submitted to SSC.

 LED in Illini Union Rooms project submitted to SSC.

Temple Hoyne Buell Hall as an Energy Learning Laboratory project submitted to SSC.

Large scale implementation of E2E Paradigm for Food Waste to Biofuel and Biomaterial project submitted to SSC.

Pilot Scale Demonstration of Plastic-to-Fuel Technology to Produce Fuels for Campus Use project submitted to SSC.

RLF Contribution project proposal submitted to SSC.