Moving Days 2014 was a great success! With expanded collection sites, including twice as many high-rise apartment buildings as in 2013, the partner organizations diverted more than 50 tons of unwanted items away from the landfill. A huge thank you to all of our co-organizers and volunteers!
By the Numbers:
- Total collection sites: 15
- Sites in campus-area high-rise apartment buildings: 10
- Number of Donate & Take sites: 3
- Total number of hours donation stations were open: 22
- Total pounds of items collected: more than 100,000
- Pounds of items collected by Goodwill Industries: 60,389
- Pounds of items collected by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul: 17,050
- Pounds of electronic waste collected for recycling: 2,604
- Estimated pounds of items re-homed through Donate & Take sites: 20,000
- Number of volunteers: 57