The storage container has arrived, for collecting recyclable gloves from various places on campus. The SWATeam is working on spreading awareness of this program and implementation protocols.
The primary deliverable of this proposed project is to provide a detailed waste characterization assessment for three facilities located throughout the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. Lincoln Avenue Residence Halls (LAR), Business Instructional Facility (BIF), Roger Adams Laboratory(RAL) are facilities that will be characterized.
This proposal builds upon the initial waste characterizations conducted in the Spring of 2013 for four buildings: Henry Administration Building, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, Swanlund Administration Building, and Illini Union Bookstore.
The objective of the assessments is to characterize the waste generated from a Lab building, a classroom building and a housing building. The primary goal of the waste stream characterization study is to provide UIUC with an accurate and precise baseline measurement of the solid waste generated at each facility type. ISTC will assist F&S in identifying and implementing practices and technologies that will reduce waste, increase landfill diversion, increase recycling revenues, and decrease waste disposal costs. These efforts will help UIUC to become an example of a sustainable campus, and will provide new learning and teaching opportunities for the university and community at large. The ancillary deliverables are various direct educational programing opportunities both structured as well as passive.
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Hello Big Ten Unplugged!
I registered our group today with the following schools and tentative dates:
We're good to go but still on the lookout for a traveling trophy. If you happen to have something we could use, please let me know.
Best of luck in your competition and we'll reconnect in early May when the winners are announced.
Best,
Stacey White
Sustainability Coordinator
University Services
University of Minnesota
Office: 612-624-3285
Dear all,
Michael at Housing just got another Gaylord full of gloves ready to ship at dining services. Making the total pounds of gloves recycled at Dining to over 1000lbs in just four months!
Way to go all!!
Regards,
Shantanu
From: Jessica Mondello [ecoolympics@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 12:09 AM
Cc: Aj Unander USGBC; Yeung, Brian Silu; Alston, Brianna Rachelle; McConnell, Claire Ellen; Saerang, Estherlita Angelica; Canteiro Reis Sobral, Francisco; Kim, Christine H; Mondello, Jessica Rae; Ross, Karoline Jeanne; Kyle Solner USGBC; Filipiuk, Magdalena; Nishant Makhijani USGBC; Foote, Gerard Paul; Jacoby, Rachel Aryn; Sun, Siyang; Johnson, Rory M
Subject: Meeting Recap
Hello Eco-Olympics team,
This will be a bit of repeat from the last email, but just bare with me:
COMPETITION DATE
ADDITIONAL UPDATES
WHAT TO WORK ON
Attached below is a document explaining the responsibilities of each member of the organization team. It also has some other useful information about the competition. If you have any confusions what so ever, please ask me!
Have a lovely week,
Jessica Mondello
Eco-Olympics | President
Email: ecoolympics@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Organizational Team, CCN 2015
Good afternoon,
Yesterday afternoon, the question of how much carbon dioxide does an Enviropure unit produce was asked. I’ve copied the information below from their website:
“According to the EPA and USCC, carbon dioxide emissions generated from the aerobic decomposition of food waste by systems such as the EnviroPure systems are considered to be “biogenic”. This means that our EnviroPure Systems and the carbon it returns to the environment are part of the natural carbon cycle and so it does not contribute to greenhouse gases and global warming.”
Please let me know if anyone has any further questions about the Enviropure units. Also, please forward this information to other members of the swat team I may be missing.
Thank you,
Carol
Carol H. Strohbeck
Assistant Director of Dining Services, Equipment & Facilities
From: Jessica Mondello [ecoolympics@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 7:36 PM
Cc: Yeung, Brian Silu; Mondello, Jessica Rae; McConnell, Claire Ellen; Aj Unander; Canteiro Reis Sobral, Francisco; Jacoby, Rachel Aryn; Sun, Siyang; Kim, Christine H; Saerang, Estherlita Angelica; Ross, Karoline Jeanne; Foote, Gerard Paul
Subject: Eco-Olympics Meeting Recap
Hey guys!
I want to thank all of you who could make it the meeting. I'm so excited to see Eco-Olympics do bigger and better things this year!
Here is a short recap of what we discussed:
Attached to this email:
As of now, the next meeting will be October 20, 2014 at 8 PM in the UGL.
Thanks again!
Jessica Mondello
Eco-Olympics | President
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yN7bIgVpVcZ4Sq_Hw1huagFsPo6MJVCr6zFs...
Hello Big10 Unplugged!
I believe I have everyone on/off the list as requested but we have have any updates or other schools to invite, please let me know.
I'm hoping to schedule a phone conference after the AASHE conference for a quick check in on this year's Big10 Unplugged challenge. Please use this link: http://www.when2meet.com/?2122186-LoyHA to indicate your availability. Please convert your time to Central Standard Time.
You do not need to create an account. Just type your first name and click sign in. The click and drag to highlight times you are available. Hopefully scheduling this far in advance will give us at least a 30 minute block of time when everyone is available. Be sure to convert your time to Central Standard Time.
Sign up for CCN before the deadline on November 7th. http://www.competetoreduce.org/ You'll need to be signed up for CCN in order to participate in Big10 Unplugged.
Attached is our logo. Feel free to use in your communications and promotions.
Thanks and reach out to me at anytime with questions,
Stacey
Hello,
My name is Rachel Jacoby. I am the Philanthropy Chair for ActGreen, the first green business organization at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. We are interested in co-sponsoring this event by promoting it on our social media sites, providing volunteers, and helping to organize it. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance.
Best,
Rachel Jacoby
Housing has been piloting the glove recycling program for about four weeks now. LAR, PRI, and MRL are all considering implementing the program. Kimberly-Clarke Professionals (KCP) is interested in potentially supporting an intern to help expand the program.
If everyone on campus recycled their KCP gloves it would be about 20 tons of landfill reduced.
Today recycling containers were placed on the trash bin at Ikenberry Commons. The purpose is to collect and recycle all the nitrile gloves used by food service employees. The weight of the gloves will be recorded to measure environmental impact.
ISTC now has a Bike Rack made out of recycled gloves on display in their atrium. This is an example of what can be created with the gloves recycled through the Kimberly-Clark glove recycling program.
Brian Yeung is planning to enter energy use data for some of the University Housing residence halls into the EPA Portfolio Manager. He is going to use the same username and password as Nishant is using for other campus buildings.
The Nitrile Glove Recycling Program is an expansion of a preliminary pilot program performed by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC). The initial pilot program collected gloves used in the laboratory setting in one central location. Gloves were collected from individual ISTC laboratories once a week into a larger collection container, and were stockpiled until there was sufficient volume to ship to the supplier. This project expands the pilot test to several more buildings on campus as a stepping stone to eventually serving the entire campus.
Blake Ashley from Kimberley Clark spoke with Shantanu Pai. Blake said they thought we are doing Labs, and Shantanu is going to work on implementing it at RAL, CLSL, and Housing. Tanya from Fisher is working with Shantanu on this project. RAL has a meeting being scheduled on June 23.
Shantanu Pai and Madeline (an ISTC intern) are taking over the implementation of the Nitrile Glove Recycling program at Housing Dining Services, after Seth Reints left the university. Shantanu has 24 containers that can hang on the edge of Dining's slim containers. Dawn Aubrey also needs containers that hang on the edge of the larger brute containers. Madeline has created a 3-D printed prototype, which will be sent to Shantanu's contact in Canada for replication.
Morgan provided Shantanu with the information that Seth had received or provided to SSC.
I took some notes from my conversation with Jennifer Bechtel the Program Director from the Innovation and Sustainability LLC who wants to start a bike share. Here are the notes as I took them. I hope this will help you to understand what is going on.
From the Campus Bike Center,
James Roedl
Jennifer from the Innovation and Sustainablility LLC came by to talk about a very small bike share pilot where the students learn to maintain bikes and are encouraged to become bike owning commuters. We discussed the matter and she has a lot of great ideas and would like to meet with us to discuss them. She has questions about maintenance, what bikes to get (she wants quality and ease of maintenance), how to maintain consistency with student turn over, a possible LLC membership or bike share membership with TBP, and many other things. I took notes on our conversation and she is going to try to make an overview of her ideas we can discuss it and find something that can work in the long term. This sounds like something we want to be a part of.
From the Campus Bike Center,
James Roedl
Hello Big Ten CCN competitors!
CCN officially ended on April 25th and the results were published yesterday. Congratulations to Penn State University on taking the lead of Big Ten Unplugged with an overall 3.3% electricity reduction during the competition. Penn State University was also a winner in the poster category.
Taking 2nd place was Ohio State University with a 3.1% reduction. 3rd place goes to University of Wisconsin - Madison with a 2.2% reduction. Congrats to our top 3 Big Ten Unplugged winners!
I'd like to propose that we continue a Big Ten Challenge in the future not only for CCN but any nationwide competition focused on resource reduction. I will propose a meeting for us some time in late summer to outline what future competitions within Big Ten might look like.
Best,
Stacey White
Sustainability Coordinator
University Services
University of Minnesota
Office: 612-624-3285
Cell: 612-978-0843
Fax: 612-625-4133
