Office of Sustainability Projects

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This collection contains projects done by students, staff, and faculty to advance sustainability at UMD. Projects were sometimes done as part of a class, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program or University Honors project, or internship. Projects date from 2009 to 2023. Themes include:

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Do Your Part: Waste Management and Sustainability
(2019) Sherwin, Cole; McCarty, Megan; Wateland, Grace; Voss, David; Primus, Riley
Gettin' Trashy
(2009-05-14) Juetten, Autumn; Martin, Drew; Raiche, Bryanna
The goal of our project was to conduct research about UMD?s waste management and encourage UMD students, staff, and faculty to use proper waste management procedures. By researching both the structural, or administrative, aspects of waste management and the campus community participation, we were able to grasp an idea of how effective our waste management is at UMD. By conducting interviews with Mindy Granley, UMD Sustainability Coordinator; Doug Greenwood, Principle Ground and Buildings Supervisor; and A.J. Matthews, Environmental Program Coordinator, we were able to gain a better understanding of the functional aspects of waste management. We also talked to a variety of students and staff to gauge an idea of how waste management on campus suits its population. We then took both the background research and applied anthropology that we did and created a documentary film that can serve as an educational tool.
Labovitz School of Business and Economics Facility Waste Audit
(2017-04-20) Pletsch, Cory; Paul, Austin; Gass, Chris
NRRI Waste Audit Report: What We Learned
(2016) Ortberg, Cassandra
During the summer of 2016, the Natural Resources Research Institute?s (NRRI) sustainability program Sustainability@NRRI conducted its first waste audit from this UMD facility. The audit of landfilled waste helped to: 1) set a baseline to compare future waste reduction program impacts, 2) highlight opportunities to improve current waste system; and 2) identify areas where the facility is doing well.
Recommendations for Improving the Waste Sorting System at the UMD Campus
(2018-01-30) Herrera, Dave; Epstein, Juliana; Schmidt, Tamara; Sisson, Wesley
Recycling As a Resource: Creating a New Recycling System for NRRI
(2015) Potter, Eleva
The Recycling Program at the University of Minnesota Duluth: Analysis and Recommendation
(2009-12-21) Wachendorf, Elyse
The report enclosed focuses on the recycling program here on the UMD campus. The report gives the definition of recycling and the reasons why recycling is so important. The report then goes on to discuss the recycling program currently in place at UMD. There are details given about the different areas of the recycling program. The report also gives some examples of ideas that different colleges are doing in their recycling program. The 2009 UMD Waste Report is discussed in this report as well as given on page 17. The report concludes with my final recommendation about how to improve the recycling program on campus. I have recommended a very cost-effective way to help increase the amount of recycling done on campus. My recommendation is to place an equal number of recycling containers and trash cans throughout campus.
Sustainability Internship Environmental and Economic Impact Assessment and Report
(2019) Murphy, Joe
UMD Sustainability: The LiNCs Internship Experience of Addy Scrimgeour and Abby Lattu
(2014) Scrimgeour, Addy; Lattu, Abby
Waste Awareness Internship
(2017) Olsen, Nicholas
Waste Disposal Behavior Research and Reduction Internship
(2018) Schmidt, Tamara
Waste Reduction and Recycling Survey
(2017) Smith, Kasey; Lamphere, Makenzie
Waste Reduction Video
(2019) Sherwin, Cole; McCarty, Megan; Wateland, Grace; Voss, David; Primus, Riley

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