{"id":8138,"date":"2015-06-29T20:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T20:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2015-06-29T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T20:53:50","slug":"res-hall-donation-drive-breaks-record-with-17-tons-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/06\/29\/res-hall-donation-drive-breaks-record-with-17-tons-collected\/","title":{"rendered":"Res. Hall Donation Drive breaks record with 17 tons collected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Results are in for this year’s Res. Hall Move-Out Donation Drive<\/a> and we are pleasantly surprised!<\/p>\n

\"Results<\/a><\/p>\n

An estimated total of 33,950 pounds – or 17 tons – of donations<\/strong> were collected, far exceeding our 24,000-pound goal! This was 1.5 times more than last year and breaks all records we’ve kept since 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Chart<\/a><\/p>\n

Every category increased this year, as can be seen in the table below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Category<\/strong><\/td>\n2014 Weight (lbs.)<\/strong><\/td>\n2015 Weight (lbs.)<\/strong><\/td>\nPercent Increase<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Housewares<\/td>\n10,027<\/td>\n13,268<\/td>\n32%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clothing, Shoes & Linens<\/td>\n6,664<\/td>\n9,706<\/td>\n46%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wood<\/td>\n3,820<\/td>\n7,618<\/td>\n99%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Food, Toiletries, School Supplies<\/td>\n1,897<\/td>\n3,358<\/td>\n77%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total Donations<\/td>\n22,408<\/td>\n33,950<\/td>\n52%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\"Staff<\/a>
Staff and volunteers unload a truck full of donations to be sorted. Click to view larger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

Why the increases? It is possible that some are due to the addition of a new res. hall (Tebeau) and The Gem participating in the program for the first time this year. As always, we also hope that this reflects a smaller amount of reusable material ending up in dumpsters.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to the estimated 35 volunteers who contributed 152 hours of their time to collect and process donations this year. And of course thank you to UHDS<\/a> for their continued role in the program and to our residents who chose to give away rather than throw away!<\/p>\n

\"Pallet-size<\/a>
Pallet-size boxes full of donations await pick-up by non-profits. Click to view larger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While a portion of the materials are resold at the OSUsed Store<\/a> to cover the costs of the program, the majority are given to local non-profits. This year that included Community Outreach<\/a>, Helping Hands in Albany<\/a>, Jackson Street Youth Shelter<\/a>, Linn Benton Food Share<\/a> and more. See a full list on our Donation Drive webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Learn more about this history of the Move-Out Donation Drive on our history webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Res. Hall Move-out Donation Drive is an annual event coordinated by Campus Recycling<\/a> in collaboration with Surplus Property<\/a> and University Housing and Dining<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Results are in for this year’s Res. Hall Move-Out Donation Drive and we are pleasantly surprised! An estimated total of 33,950 pounds – or 17 tons – of donations were collected, far exceeding our 24,000-pound goal! This was 1.5 times more than last year and breaks all records we’ve kept since 2010. Every category increased […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292118,1292119],"tags":[624986,608247],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-surplus-property","category-waste-reduction","tag-osused-store","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}