The iCAP Working Group met on 4-19-22 and discussed the following agenda: 

1. ZW007 Composting Committee (Alexa Smith and Sydney Trimble)
2. ZW008 Adopt a Highway/Drain (Alexa Smith and Sydney Trimble)
3. Res003 Collecting Info about Environmental Justice Needs (Stacy Gloss)
4. Updates
   1. Earth Month – Meredith
   2. SSC
   3. SSLC
   4. ISG

The meeting minutes are attached. 

Following the completion of iWG assessment (attached) for ZW005 Water Bottle Survey, the recommendation was transmitted to Dr. Madhu Khanna, interim Director of iSEE, on 4/19/22.

See submittal of ZW005 recommendation here.  

The Zero Waste iCAP Team submitted the following recommendation to the iCAP Working Group on 4/8/22:

"The Zero Waste team recommends a two-pronged approach to incentivizing an Adopt a Highway/Drain program:

• Adopt-a-Highway (Champaign) incentive program recommended to engage faculty, staff and administration at the Department or College entity level
• Adopt-a-Drain (Champaign) & Urbana Street incentives programs recommended to engage students involved such as RSOs, Greek houses, dorms and Living Learning Communities."

The ZW008 Adopt a Highway/Drain recommendation is attached. 

Dr. Ehab Kamarah, Executive Director of F&S, responded to Dr. Jennifer Fraterrigo, iSEE Associate Director of Campus Sustainability, with the following email:

"This is to confirm that F&S team will form the EV Task Force with input from the Parking Advisory Committee."

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See submittal and Trans014 recommendation here.
See transmittal and iWG assessment of Trans014 Electric Vehicle Task Force Membership here. 

For future updates, see the Electric Vehicle (EV) Task Force project page. 

The iWG met on 3-29-22 and discussed the following agenda. The meeting minutes are attached. 

1. Review from last meeting
   1. Energy008 – will be returned pending completion of planning doc
   2. Energy009 – update from Qu?
2. New recommendations
   1. ZW005 Water Bottle Survey
   2. ZW006 Water Filter System Tracking
3. Overview of Sub-Council Agenda
4. Round the table - updates

The Zero Waste iCAP Team submitted recommendation ZW006 Water Filter System Tracking on 3/2/22. The recommendation is attached, and states in summary:

"The Zero Waste Team recommends that the number and status of all EZH20 bottle filling stations on campus are tracked by number, location, amount of water bottles saved, and their filtration status (I.e. green, yellow, red/date of filter replacement)."

Morgan White, Associate Director of F&S for Sustainability, sent the following email, declining PWR006.

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Hello Jen and Meredith,

I am writing this to close the loop on iCAP recommendation from 2015, and for posting on the iCAP Portal about this topic. In 2015, iSEE sent PWR006: Expanded Recycling to the Executive Director of F&S Al Stratman, from what is now the Zero Waste iCAP Team.  The director over the waste transfer station at the time, Carl Wegel, asked the staff to investigate the accuracy of the potential income from expanding the plastics collections.  Tracy Osby and Bart Bartels looked into it, and I was informed that in our local market there could be an increased cost to campus for collecting and recycling these additional plastics, rather than the projected increase of revenue.  Additionally, the existing baler at the Waste Transfer Station was deemed incapable of handling the additional plastics, in its old age condition.  For that reason, this recommendation was denied by F&S, in a discussion with the PWR SWATeam.

On a brighter note, we are currently working on hiring a full time Zero Waste Coordinator, who will be able to pursue this effort further.  We also are grateful to the support of the Student Sustainability Committee, which funded a feasibility study to identify the costs of replacing the current baler.  I have also discussed the funding needs for the new baler with Associate Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives Kim Kidwell and Senior Executive Director of Principal Gifts David Bruns, in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement.

F&S looks forward to continuing our partnership with iSEE to support the implementation of the iCAP 2020 objectives, and we look forward to reducing plastics on campus in the months/years to come.

Thank you,

Morgan

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See PWR006 Expanded Recycling transmittal and iWG assessment here. 

See PWR006 Expanded Recycling recommendation here. 

The Energy iCAP Team made the following recommendation on 2/8/21. The Energy009 MMR Safety and Security is attached, and a summary of the recommendation is as follows. 

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We recommend that the campus commission a report on safety and security surrounding the micro-modular reactor (MMR).

Aaron Finder, Assistant Director of the Purchasing and Contracts Management office, sent the following email on 2/9/22:

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Hi Meredith,

I have met with NERC a couple time to get a better understanding of NERC and its Government Recycling Demand Champions program. Their Director, Lynn Rubinstein, and I discussed membership levels and the Purchasing and Contracts Management Office will join NERC as a “Supporting Member.”

Through our membership with NERC, we will also have the ability to participate in 4 active committees:

1. Plastic & Paper Recycling Markets
2. Bottle Bill Committee (Charge more for plastic at purchase but receive money back if you recycle)
3. Glass Committee
4. Organics – End Markets (Compost)

There will be limitations on how many participants we can invite to committee meetings or NERC conferences, but Lynn did say I could include at least one committee member (i.e. Tim Stark or Zero Waste Coordinator) if we participate in any event.  

After we become members, we will become a  State Recycling Organization Advocate within the Government Recycling Demand Champions program. This means we will commit to helping publicize the program and promote purchasing of products with post-consumer resin to their members and the public. While we are developing our EPP Guide, this seems to be the most appropriate classification.

I’ll let you know once our membership dues have been paid. I’m also sharing a couple documents Lynn provided.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Thanks,

Aaron M Finder, mba cppb

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For future updates, see State Recycling Organization Advocate NERC project page here.