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Share Our Stuff is Washington University’s annual event to protect the environment and support those in need in our community by sharing our unwanted goods. Each year during on- and off-campus move-out, our campus community is responsible for the disposal of a tremendous amount of usable goods. These goods can be reused by people in need within our campus community and throughout our surrounding neighborhoods. Share Our Stuff is the university-wide collaborative designed to make it easy for all students to recycle their unwanted items at move out in a manner that benefits the environment and our community.
The members of Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity have provided this service to our campus community for several years. In 2008, a university-wide collaborative was formed to support the TKE initiative and to more comprehensively collect the amount of materials disposed of by our community. In 2009, Sharing With A Purpose (SWAP), a non-profit sponsored through Student Entrepreneurial Program, joined the effort. Together, we are working to continually improve the Share Our Stuff program to ensure that usable goods are redistributed to those in our community most in need, rather than needlessly ending up in landfills.
WHEN & WHERE TO DONATE:
Schedule an Appointment
Report Overflow
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If you live on campus… |
If you live off campus… |
Collection Dates: |
April 27 – May 18, 2009 |
April 27 – August 8, 2009 |
Collection Sites: |
South Forty Residential Colleges
Beaumont – Ground floor lobby Danforth – 1st floor next to center staircase Dardick – 1st floor lobby Dauten - basement Eliot – 1st floor TV lounge Gregg – Entry lobby next to fire escape Hitzeman - Basement Hurd - Basement Lee – Ground floor lobby Lien – Room next to 1st floor kitchen Liggett/Koenig – 1st floor lounge Mudd – Ground floor conference room Myers - Basement Nemerov – 1st floor lobby Park – Ground floor multipurpose room Rubelmann – Ground floor lobby Rutledge – Basement Shanedling – Basement Shepley – 1st floor TV lounge Wheeler – 1st floor TV lounge Wohl – South exit next to Friedman lounge |
Quadrangle Housing
Map (pdf)
701 Eastgate – POD* 725 Kingsland – POD 6188 McPherson – POD 6654 Washington – POD |
Residential Life
Map (pdf)
University Drive – POD in alley (May 4 - 18)
*PODS will be open 10am – 3pm |
North Side Residential Houses
House 6 – South entry lounge
Lopata – Basement near grand staircase
Millbrook 1 – Basement TV lounge
Millbrook 4 – Entry way near RCD office
Village – Dining room E and main hallway
Village East – Basement TV lounge |
WHAT TO DONATE:
Each Share Our Stuff collection site will have bins for the following items. Look for these signs at your location:
- Appliances & Electronics
- Books
- Clean Clothing & Linens
- Non-Perishable Food, Hygiene Products, & Office Supplies
- Furniture & Furnishings
WHO WILL BENEFIT:
In addition to avoiding the environmental impacts of disposing the goods in our landfills, Share Our Stuff will be benefiting the following organizations:
Established in 1981 to address the growing problem of hunger, Operation Food Search is a St. Louis food bank that distributes food free of charge helping to feed the poor and hungry.
Operation Food Search distributes more than 1.5 million pounds of perishable and non-perishable food and household items to 300 food pantries and soup kitchens who offer emergency hunger-relief to nearly 120,000 poor people every single month. Nearly half the recipients are children.
The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), in the Department of Neurology, at Washington University School of Medicine is one of 32 centers funded or otherwise supported by the National Institute on Aging with the collective aim of facilitating advanced research on clinical, genetic, neuropathological, neuroanatomical, biomedical, psychosocial, and neuropsychological aspects of Alzheimer's disease and related brain disorders.
Lydia's House works to end domestic violence, by being a place of healing and a voice of hope for abused women and their children.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
Office of Residential Life
Community Service Office
Office of Government & Community Relations
Department of Facilities Planning & Management
Quadrangle Housing
Student Entrepreneurial Program
QUESTIONS? FEEDBACK? CONTACT:
For more information, call the Office of Sustainability at 314-935-6214 or sustainability@wustl.edu. |
