Gradually, colleges and universities have become aware of the problem and have instituted programs that sell, reuse and/or donate stuff back to the community. Among the voices out there is Lisa Heller Boragine, founder of the nonprofit Dump & Run. Dump & Run advises schools on how to collect items and give them to charity.
A partial list of these reuse programs follows. I could not find any list like it online, so I am currently building one.
- Alfred University (news)
- Give & Go Green at Barnard College (news)
- Clean Sweep at Bates College, started in 2001
- Cleansweep at Boston College
- Give and Go at Bowdoin College, started in 2002
- "When You Move Out, Don't Throw It Out" at Bowling Green State University (news)
- Give and Go at Brandeis University
- University of California, Berkeley (2008 administration announcement, and a flyer from the City of Berkeley, but no reports of current support found)
- The Resource Recovery Drive at the University of California, Davis
- The Clothes-Out Drive at the University of California, Los Angeles (news)
- The G.I.V.E. Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Clark University (DOC Flyer)
- Give + Go Green at Columbia University
- Give & Go at the University of Connecticut
- Dump & Run at Cornell University
- Sustainable Move-Out at Dartmouth University
- The Move Out Donation Program at the University of Dayton (news)
- Move Out for Charity at Duke University (news and more news)
- Project Move-Out at Fairleigh Dickinson College
- Patriot Pack Out at George Mason University
- Green Move Out at George Washington University, started in 2006
- Sustainable Move Out at the Georgia Institute of Technology, started in 1998 (news)
- Haverford College (PDF flyer)
- Donation Dash (2009 link) at Humboldt State University
- Move Out at Lehigh University
- Think Green and Give at Loyola University Chicago
- Terrapin JUNKtion at the University of Maryland, started in 2005 (news)
- MICA Swap and Drop at the Maryland Institute College of Art
- Unnamed at Merrimack College
- Don't Dump It, Donate It! at the University of Michigan
- Green Apple Move Out at New York University (news)
- Unnamed at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- Dump and Run at the Ohio State University
- Ohio University (news)
- Unnamed at the University of Oregon
- Oregon State University (news)
- PennMOVES at the University of Pennsylvania, started in 2008
- Unnamed at Princeton University
- Student Move-out Recycling at Rice University
- Rutgers Recovering Our Resources at Rutgers University, started in 2009 (news)
- “Go Green, Then Go Home” at Saint Joseph's College of Maine (news)
- Sustainable Move Out at San Francisco State University, started in 2007 (news and more news)
- Unnamed at Santa Clara University
- Seattle University (PDF flyer)
- Project Move-Out at Simmons College (last updated 2008)
- Give It Up at the University of South Carolina, started in 2001 (news)
- Green Move Out at Stanford University
- Dump and Run at Suffolk University, started in 2007 (news)
- Unnamed at Texas A&M University
- Trash to Treasure at Texas Christian University, officialized in 2006
- Unnamed at Tulane University
- Donation Day at Union College
- Unnamed at University of Vermont (news)
- YMCA at Virginia Tech’s Ytoss? at the Virginia Institute of Technology
- Move Out Pitch In at Washington State University
- Share Our Stuff at Washington University in St. Louis, started by the fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon, officialized in 2008
- Unnamed at University of Wisconsin - Stout
- Spring Salvage at Yale University, informally started in the 1990s, officialized by the administration in 2006
Sources:
Colleges turn students’ trash into cash for charity
By Bridget Huber, Christian Science Monitor, 2009.05.26 Tue
Advanced Dumpster Diving: Colleges Get Smart on Salvage
By Gilbert Cruz, Time, 2009.06.07 Sun
College Students Dump 'n Run – Sustainability
By Andrew Webster2009.06.12 Fri
Google search for summer discard programs (often difficult because they're all named differently)
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