Move-out day pt. 3
“I can’t believe what those kids leave behind.” If you do enough end-of-the-year student move outs, you hear that statement a lot. If you make that statement to judge college students, I’d urge you to read my blog post “The Move Out Surge Begins” to get a sense for what the end of the year ...
Earth Day
Editor’s note: Not quite sure what I was thinking asking someone as unorthodox as Roger to write an Earth Day blog post but here it goes. Earth Day is again upon us. For some it is the beginning of the annual migration of the groove band and hippie drum circle. It is comforting to see ...
Tracking recycling Pt. 1
I think that tracking is one of the most important and sometimes-overlooked part of a successful recycling program. Tracking takes a little bit of effort, but I think the results are well worth it. You need data to show the impacts of your program. You want to be able to say, I did this and ...
Move-out day pt. 2
Your world for the past 9 months has been a 10’ x 15’ room that you’ve shared with at least one other person. For 9 months, you’ve lived in that room, socialized in it, studied in it, and decorated it. You’ve furnished it with anything you can find, every family member hand me down that ...
Getting funding pt. 2
In my last post, I discussed potential sources of funding. So how do you proceed from a bulleted list of potential funders to actually getting someone to fund your program? One of the cardinal mistakes that I think most people make is to assume that because you have a funding need and someone else has ...
Getting funding pt. 1
In my earlier “Have You Evolved” posts 1 and 2, I talked about the stages that each recycling program goes through in its evolution. One of the reasons that people often get stuck in one of the earlier phases is because of the capital investment required to advance to the next phase of the operation. ...
Targeting your message
OK, so hopefully you have read posts 1and 2 of this series and re-evaluated your education program. You have sorted out your who, what, when, where, why, and hows. Now how do you deliver the message? The best way to explain this is with some hunting references and analogies. For those of you who are ...
Understanding why
In my last post, I focused on the critical role that information plays in your recycling program. But there is one big piece that information doesn’t cover. That is why. There are a lot of different parts of “why”, depending on what you intend to do with it, Introduction One of the trickiest parts of ...
Move-out day pt. 1
This post is for those of you who read this blog who are college students. Or those of you who are parents, co-workers, or mentors of college students. THE END IS NEAR! OK, for those of you who are already getting overwhelmed about everything you still have to do between now and the end of ...
Everything I need to know I learned from… where?
One of the trickiest parts of running recycling or sustainability on a college or university campus is education. Implementing education at an institution whose very mission is education runs into a lot of potential pitfalls and conflicts. To help avoid some of those conflicts, I think it is important to change our vocabulary and start ...
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