presentation february 13, 2013
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What a Waste!
A Campaign to Reduce, Reuse, and Manage Waste at Move-Out Time
UMN Proud??
City of Lakes??
What do you see dumped at the curb?
• Recyclables• Reusable
household goods
• Household hazardous waste
• Things that don’t belong in the waste stream
So What?
• Blight—begets more blight
• Students and other residents feel bad about where they live
• Terrible message about the UMN neighborhood
• Tons of reusable goods go to landfill
• Scavengers break up and scatter the trash
• Hazardous waste is released into the environment
What a Waste!These scenes are
repeated each year in the
U District neighborhoods
O Did this happen in the city, town, or neighborhood where you grew up?
O If not, why not? What’s going on here?
Research Project 1:
Best Practices in Near-Campus
Neighborhoods
O What is working (and why) in other communities adjacent to university campuses?
O (This could be a project for more than one group.)
Project Contact: Jan Morlock, jam@umn.edu; Ricardo McCurley,, ricardo@comogreenvillage.org
Research Project 2:
Influencing Behavior
O What do student residents think of this problem?
O What will make it more likely that they will be part of the solution?
Project Contact: Carolyn Collopy, carolyn.collopy@co.hennepin.mn.us
Research Project 3:
On-Campus Practices and
Lessons Learned
O What’s working (or not) with UMN residence hall reuse, reduce, recycle at move-in and move-out time?
Project Contact: Stacey White, whit0691@umn.edu
The Campaign Planning Team
• Carolyn Collopy, Hennepin County Department of Environmental Services
• Al Ditty, City of Minneapolis Dep’t of Public Works• David Herberholz, City of Minneapolis Dep’t of Publc Works• Ricardo McCurley, South East Como Improvement
Association• Jan Morlock*, UMN and U District Alliance (jam@umn.edu)• Kendre Turonie, UMN Office for Student Affairs• Stacey White, UMN ReUse Program• Peg Wolff, UMN and U District Alliance• Other members of the city’s task force
*Contact for general questions
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