Housing & Residence Life want you to Green your Move Out:
Housing & Residence Life want you to Green your Move Out: From May 3 to May 15 - 9 am to 5:30 pm
BIG ITEMS: Take your big items and electronic waste to the Goodwill container (cabinets, furniture, printers, flat screens, laptop, you name it): - Eaton-Lakeside Village intersection - Hecht Dining Hall; Stanford Tower - Mahoney Pearson Dining Hall - University Village Parking lot
FOOD WASTE: Take your canned and packaged food to the Feeding South Florida bins located in the 2 Dining Halls, the University Village lobby and DayBreak at Lakeside Village. Follow these requirements.
SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING: - At Eaton, Mahoney Pearson, University Village and Hecht-Stanford: Pick a clear bag at your residence front desk for CLEAN and EMPTY recyclables (all paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, cans…). Take your black trash bags to the trash chute, and your clear recycling bag to the recycling room.
- At Lakeside Village: Don't throw your bag of recyclables in the recycling chute, Empty it and keep your bag: here is a video to learn how to do it.
OTHER WASTE: - Recycling boxes available at Stanford Lobby and at the Wellness Center Lobby for: Single Use batteries and PPE (single use masks and gloves)
- School supply recycling box at Student Government Suite (Shalala Student Center - 2nd Fl) This supply will be offered for reuse by frehsmen in the Fall
At Eaton, Mahoney Pearson, University Village and Hecht-Stanford:
Print this sign an post it in the recycling room, or at the frontdesk
At Lakeside Village:
Don't throw your bag of recyclables in the recycling chute, Empty it and keep your bag: here is a video to learn how to do it.
When you bring canned and packaged food to the FOOD DRIVE bin, check these simple requirements:
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Spring 2018
Even as they prepared for final exams & made plans for the summer, University of Miami students helped our local community.
During spring move-out, 4,000+ resident students donated 38.5 tons of goods to Goodwill Industries International, Inc. - an increase of 7,570 pounds compared to last year's total! They also donated 568 pounds of food to Feeding South Florida the equivalent of nearly 472 meals!
Are you a freshman, transfer student or resident on campus? Then check out this 3 minute video on all the great green features our beautiful campus offers. After viewing the video, please take this SHORT QUIZ which will teach you how to play your part at keeping our campus eco-friendly.
A big THANK YOU goes to all of our students for giving back to our community and making our operations greener every year!
This year, during our move out: - Goodwill collected a total of 67,120 lbs. in donations, 8, 089 lbs. more than last year. - Feeding South Florida was also able to collect 283 pounds of packaged food, which helped provide nearly 236 meals. “Thanks to the support of community partners like you, we are able to provide these meals to serve the more than 785,000 food insecure individuals in our community.” Feeding South Florida
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GREEN your MOVE OUT - 2016 with Housing Residence Life & Green U
Housing & Residence Life and Green U want you to make your Move Out Green: - Pick a clear bag at your residence front desk for CLEAN and EMPTY recyclables (all paper, cardboard, plastic container, cans…). Leave it in the room along with the black bag for trash. - Take your big items and E waste to the Goodwill container (cabinets, furniture, printers, flat screens, laptop, you name it): Eaton, Hecht Dining, Hecht Tower, Mahoney Pearson, U Village - Take your old cartridges, rechargeable batteries to your computer lab bin. - Take your canned and packaged food to the Feeding South Florida bins in the Dining Halls.
Thanks to Good Will and Feeding South Florida for the incredible job they are doing with the community You want to bring canned and packaged food to the FOOD DRIVE bin.
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Last year, the Green move out was a total success, let’s raise the bar this year! - In 2016, Goodwill collected a total of 67,120 lbs. in donations, 8, 089 lbs. more than in 2015. Feeding South Florida was also able to collect 283 pounds of packaged food, which helped provide nearly 236 meals. “Thanks to the support of community partners like you, we are able to provide these meals to serve the more than 785,000 food insecure individuals in our community.” Feeding South Florida
A big THANK YOU goes to all of our students for giving back to our community and making our operations greener every year!
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MOVE OUT ReUse Stations - 2015 If you are a student, faculty or staff living on or close to the Coral Gables campus, here is an opportunity to give away your personal old furniture and big electronics: cabinets, printers, flat screens, you name it. Like every year, Housing and Residential Life is partnering with Good Will to make sure our used belongings don’t end up in a landfill and are reused. They are open until 6 pm Containers Locations: Eaton, Hecht Dining, Hecht Tower, Mahoney Pearson, U Villages.
