UIUC Facilities and Services

We met with Peter Varney and Sydney Trimble who work with Facilities & Services (F&S) to manage the majority of waste collection bins on campus. It was important to us to connect with and gain understanding of the work that is being done to manage waste and recycling efforts within our own university community, especially the main problems faced in waste management. We learned that the main problems experienced by F&S revolve around the work of sorting waste from recyclables. Some buildings on campus have dedicated recycling containers, but not all, so F&S is strategic about the placement location of new bins that are put on campus. By increasing the accessibility of dedicated recycling containers, F&S helps ensure that less sorting work needs to be done further down the line, though people still sometimes sort their waste into the wrong section of the bin. We learned that on campus, cardboard and paper is the overwhelming majority of waste by volume, and that there is a semi load of cardboard and paper per week. Plastic actually has much less waste by volume in comparison, at around 1 to 2 semi loads per year. Pete also noted that the University only collects #1 and #2 bottled plastics, and that there are limits to how much can be collected.

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1. Allen, M. J., & Sheridan, S. C. (2015).

   Mortality risks during extreme temperature events (ETEs) using a distributed lag non-linear model.

   International Journal of Biometeorology 62(1), 57-67.

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   Investigating the impact of influenza on excess mortality in all ages in Italy during recent seasons (2013/14-2016/17 seasons).

   International Journal of Infectious Diseases 88, 127-134.

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   Mathematical modeling in systems biology: An introduction.

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