Reducing Discarded Usable Items in Residence Halls
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This spring, reduce the amount of usable items discarded in your residence halls
Erica Mattison Sustainability Coordinator Suffolk University, Boston
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Key question: At the end of the school year, what happens to the stuff students don't
want to keep???
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Make it easy for students to give, and many of them will!
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Spike in output at residence
halls in April/May
your campus has an
opportunity.
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What you need: Structure • A system, known to all key players
• Res Life, Facilities, Program Staff, Janitorial Staff
• Promotion (in advance and during) • Housing for staff • Convenient drop-off locations • Temporary storage spaces • Plans for pick-ups or deliveries
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People Power • Staff (paid or unpaid) • Community partners (charities)
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Materials • Collection hampers (chained together) • Signage indicating what goes where &
reminder signage (i.e. waste closet doors) • Hundreds of boxes (same size; donated),
tape/dispensers, bags, labels
WAIT! CAN THAT BE DONATED?!
If you have clean items in good or fair condition please donate them to
Dump and Run!
Location:10 West Lobby
When:Now through the end of move-out
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Lessons Learned • Timing: Set up collection points two weeks before move-out
• Efficiency: Uniform sized boxes
• Time saver: have labels ready to go for each org
• Info: Promote the orgs that will benefit
• Don’t let your hampers pull a disappearing act –chain together so
students moving out don’t borrow them
• Staffing: Can Res Life assign some student staff to sort and pack?
• Lack of storage? Have organizations conduct pick-ups throughout
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Ken Hung, Suffolk University Professor of Operations
Management, for lending his expertise
ABM Janitorial Services staff,
for their many years of helping ensure a smooth program
Jim Wallace, Suffolk University
Facilities Operations, for his support of the program
Bob Mullin, Casey & Hayes Movers, for generous donation of
500 boxes
Caroline Davis, Suffolk University Residence Life, for integrating Dump
& Run into Move-Out
The many Suffolk students who have contributed to the program and
staffed the program
Lisa Heller Boragine, Dump and Run, for her many
years of partnership
Thank you!
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Erica Mattison Campus Sustainability Coordinator
Suffolk University, Boston, MA [email protected]
www.suffolk.edu/sustainability
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