Jeremy Forrest Emerald
Shaleen Kessler, front, sorts through boxes of books for St. Vincent DePaul. This is just one place where
students can donate items they are left with when moving.
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Local organizations
allow for recycling,
reselling products
Stores such as St. Vincent DePaul,
Goodwill, The ARC and the Salvation
Army will accept unwanted goods
that can be recycled or resold
Tom Adams
Freelance Reporter
With summer on the horizon, many stu
dents will soon be filling boxes for the end
of-the-school-year move. If the thought of
packing and moving every little thing is
daunting, students should consider some
ecologically sound ways
to lighten the load. There
are many options for re
cycling unwanted items.
Students living in the
residence halls can get
rid of their unwanted
goods just by stepping
out into the hallway. Uni
versity Custodial Services
places clearly marked
bins in residence halls to
collect the items. Custo
dial Services Manager
Bonnie Damewood over
sees the program, which
has been in operation for
the past six years. She
said tha! just about
everything imaginable
gets donated.
“We get everything
from books and clothing
to iguana food,” she said.
Damewood said an aver
age or three tons or unwanted goods are col
lected each year. The items are then donat
ed to local nonprofit groups, such as the
Springfield/Marcola Family Resource Center.
For students living off campus, charitable
organizations such as St. Vincent DePaul,
Goodwill, The ARC and the Salvation Army
all offer convenient opportunities to donate.
St. Vincent DePaul has eight local retail
outlets, and according to Charlie Harvey, the
assistant to the executive director, every
thing from appliances and computers to
knick-knacks and plates are accepted. He
said the charitable organization has been
successful at not only reselling items, but
also recycling what is unusable.
“We receive over a million pounds of
clothing a year, but only two-thirds of it is
usable,” he said. “Rather than discard all ex
tra clothing into a landfill, we’ve developed a
program that sells the textile to local and in
ternational companies who then use the ma
terial to make new clothes. It’s very practi
cal recycling.”
Harvey said St. Vincent’s will pick up most
items at no charge. However, there is a 05
charge for usable appliances and computer
monitors. If an appliance is not salvageable,
it can still be hauled out of the home for a
nominal 020. It is then stripped for any us
able parts and scraps are recycled.
Junior Shaun Cook
said he would rather do
nate his unwanted things
than throw them into
a Dumpster.
“I’d go that extra step,”
he said. “I mean, I get all
my stuff from there, and
I’m sure that somebody
else can make use of
some of my things. This
year I bought a bed, cof
fee table, chair, couch
and lamp from St. Vin
cent’s. These were
all somebody else’s
things, and all are per
fectly usable.”
BRING Recycling is
also another outlet for
unwanted items. Business
Manager David Wollner
said the organization spe
cializes in refurbishing
and reselling things one
might find in a shop or garage.
“We take things like hand tools, power
tools and all sorts of wood furniture,”
he said. He added the company only takes
hard furniture such as tables, chairs, book
cases, dressers and file cabinets. Soft furni
ture such as ftiattresses and couches are
not accepted.
And until June 1, BRING Recycling will
also have a drop-off site for old athletic
shoes. The program is part of Nike’s Reuse
A-Shoe program, which has challenged 25
communities nationwide to collect 5,000
pairs of athletic shoes by June 1. The shoes
will be ground up and used as a resurfacing
material for track and athletic fields.
Tom Adams is a freelance writer for the Emerald.
"We receive over
a million pounds
of clothing a year, but
only two-thirds of it is
usable. Rather than
discard all extra clothing
into a landfill, we've
developed a program
that sells the textile
to local and international
companies who then use
the material to make
new clothes."
Charlie Harvey
assistant to the executive
director
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