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