Hi!

I know the information might've been a lot, so here's just a quick summary regarding what is left to do:

• Reach out to the following universities to ask questions:
  
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Iowa
  •  University of Minnesota
  • Rutgers
  • University of Maryland
  • Illinois State University (ISU)
  • Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (SIUC)
  • Eastern Illinois University (EIU)
  • University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS)
  • Michigan State University

• See if we can get the contacts for UIS, SIUC, and EIU. I found the contact person for ISU, but I will need to find her email. I'll try to update the file if I can find it.
•  
• Set up meetings with Ohio State University and University of Michigan. I've already contacted them before but haven't gotten back to them regarding Zoom scheduling.
•  
• Any responses that you get regarding the survey should be filled out in the Big 10 spreadsheet located in this filepath: G:\Recycling & Waste\Big 10 Recycling

I bolded the main contact that you should email for each respective university. If someone else ends up answering, please make note of their contact info. You can use/adjust the introduction I already have typed up in the Box file labeled "Big 10 Survey" when contacting people. If you want me to do some of the contacting, just let me know.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions :)

From: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 15:44
To: Szal, Dominika Patrycja <dszal2@illinois.edu>
Subject: Hi!

This is my main email – feel free to send over anything about the Big 10 project here!

Daphne

From: Breitwieser, Steven <sbreit@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 2:16 PM
To: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>; Fancher, Matthew David <mfancher@illinois.edu>
Cc: Mahajan, Shreya <shreyam6@illinois.edu>; Szal, Dominika Patrycja <dszal2@illinois.edu>; Gordon, Malikah Asrayyah <magordon@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Recyclopedia

Daphne,

I took a look at this back in July. I can share my feedback on this from a content and communications perspective.

Let me know if you want to go over those aspects. I do think there are some updates that still need to be made.

Thanks.

Steve B.

From: Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 12:50 PM
To: Breitwieser, Steven <sbreit@illinois.edu>; Fancher, Matthew David <mfancher@illinois.edu>
Cc: Mahajan, Shreya <shreyam6@illinois.edu>; Szal, Dominika Patrycja <dszal2@illinois.edu>
Subject: Recyclopedia

Hi Steve and Matthew,

I am reaching out to see if there is any status update on launching the Recyclopedia project? I have cc’d Shreya and Dominika, our F&S waste management interns, who have been involved in this project prior to my arrival.

Thank you!

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


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Attached is a draft presentation entitled Sustainability Best Practices Guide.

Hi all,

The attached “Sustainability Best Practices Guide” started as a document from a student team in 2021 and has somewhat evolved since then. Do you have any comments or suggestions? This will be posted on the iSEE website, iCAP Portal, and shared with Housing.

Thanks,

Meredith

Michael's updates:

• Theme pages (e.g. Land and Water theme page): put a max height on the images so portrait images aren't enormous
• Projects Updates page: made search tips collapsible (putting under search fields will require more substantial changes to page structure)
• Project Search (DEV): order of search fields matches order of table columns
• Fixed the look of the related files on the Fancy Project Page layout (see, e.g. Sustainability iCAP Portal)
• iCAP Objective pages: show recent project history of the Associated Project (see, e.g. Key Objective: 1.0 iCAP 2020 Illinois Climate Action Plan) [note: need to resolve informational message on full listing page]

TODOs:

• 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)
• Why is the Achieve Zero Waste project map page not loading?
• Discuss metrics at next meeting
  • 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)
• Reorganize Collections pages
  • Keep project listing in top left
  • Move map to lower left
  • Move Updates to top right, show 5-7
  • Keep Hierarchy in lower right, link to hierarchy in separate page rather than loading in current page to speed up page loading time
• Related Files section on project pages: show as list rather than cards, add spacing between items, remove bullet points

Art Schmidt from Civil and Environmental Engineering, reached out to faculty and students urging them to create a team made up of individuals from different disciplines/departments for the Rainworks Challenge. UIUC won this design competition in 2017 and Schmidt credits this success to the fact that the winning team was made up by many disciplines across campus. Schmidt explains that he is willing to serve as a faculty advisor for this challenge. 

Brent Lewis, Brian Chaille, CEE students and other individuals expressed great interest in creating this team. Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Mary Pat McGuire asked the following questions:

How can we use the competition to advance actual implementation of GSI here on campus? Do we need to identify funding to support implementation? Should we start a campaign for alum donations for implementation of projects? Can we revisit the 2015 2nd place winning master plan to explore the viability of that plan, and to add to it? Can we revisit the 2017 1st place winning design and explore the implementation of that proposal? What does a future 2022 winning proposal want to achieve for our campus that is new or different from those previous wins - and how can we get everyone on board with implementation?

On September 21, UIUC sustainability representatives met with Coca-Cola and discussed the following:

Attendance: Sarah Carten, Liz Doeschot, Jen Fraterrigo, Dave Guth, Daphne Hulse, Shreya Mahajan, Meredith Moore, Shawn Patterson, Jake Slager, Tyler Swanson, Nicole Tate

• External ,eeting cadence: weekly or biweekly call with the high-level team, and a monthly call with everyone.

• Did Morgan move forward with the spreadsheet of UIUC and Coca-Cola contacts:

  • Meredith: it probably hasn’t been completed.

  • Daphne will complete it.

• Zero waste athletic events (Mercedes Benz stadium is best in class, zero waste in all facets, Atlanta Falcon):

  • Bins and messaging need to be consistent.

  • Journey there is very similar to here. It started with a waste audit and Circular Solutions for a closed loop system:

    • Circular Solutions will get far more technical than Coca-Cola will get.

  • Start off with a zero waste event, and use them as a blueprint. Their goal was a huge marquee zero waste event (March 2020 March Madness).

    • This event didn’t happen. But the time during the pandemic allowed them to work towards it incrementally.

  • Awarded zero waste in June 2022.

• For a zero waste event, consistent branding is going to be the most important part:

  • University of Washington (PAC-12 sustainability award).

    • Turn towards the student body for support, it is much more impactful (not self-serving activation, more engaging).

    • 2 full-time interns that focused on this programming.

      • Leveraged email blasts, athletic websites, season ticket holders to let them know in advance.

      • Created hashtag and shared results after (#CougsGoGreen).

      • Engaged student groups who volunteered to help with execution at informational tables (driving guest awareness, giving sustainable swag, helping with sorting after the events).

      • Opportunity to share videos? Amplify what is happening on campus already.

      • Zero waste plan:

        • Short-term: reach out to student orgs with a need for community service hours (sorority, fraternity, student gov?).

        • Long-term: Circular Solutions could identify gaps in sorting infrastructure and how to address the gaps.

    • Tackle concessions: most visible part of the operation, and it creates a lot of waste by nature.

• Feedback:

  • Jen: challenge is athletics not at the table. We don’t know if they are on board. We don’t necessarily have a good relationship with them at this point in time.

    • Nicole: this is not so unusual. There are a few partners with great cross-functional collaboration on campus. But everyone has different goals, different business units.

      • Recommendations: if the passion is around making it an athletic event (engage students, make an impact), step one might be identifying one point person at athletics to be the “yes”-er not even the “do”-er. If you can position this as “you can save time and energy if you allow us to set forth this plan on our end” can be a convincing point to keep them out of the minutiae of the planning. A second option is to start with a marquee student life event, than a marquee athletic event (convocation, commencement, bid day for Greek organizations)

• Earth Day would allow us a longer lead time.

• Jake will have a conversation with Marty tomorrow about this.

  • Meanwhile, we can try with the Athletics Board.

• Footprint: inside or outside of the event for a green team (swag, green team, get caught green handed).

• In venue messaging: throughout the course of the game, can there be half-time message, every x number of minutes or hours for a brief message? What can the DIA offer us?

  • Digital signage.

• Heaviest lift: strong recycling infrastructure.

• Ryan Squire: Executive in the DIA.

• Don’t Waste It history: concept was ideated 18 months ago. Trademark review and it passed. Ran it through trademark again, some other company in the last 18 months decided to use it.

From: Student Sustainability Committee 
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 2:31 PM
To: White, Morgan
Cc: recycling@illinois.edu; Varney, Peter W 
Subject: Re: Extension request for Dump and Run

Hi All,

This Scope Change was approved! Sorry for the late response!

Please let us know if any additional information is needed on our end!

Best,

SSC

11 lawn signs were posted across the campus on September 5, 2022. Only 7 signs were removed after the removed, the remaining were lost.