Student Assembly Environmental Committee

Attendance:

Emma, Mike, Aileen present

Composting in Trillium

• Designing a good system for compost
• Problems:
  • Sign is too high, on the bin
  • We like when someone sticks an actual cup on the wall
  • Working your way in
• Compost → trash
• Education
  • People don’t know how and they wouldn’t want to learn
  • Orientation week?
  • Compost monitors work
• Funding to pay for them
• Service hours
• Greeks go Green — Rebecca Elbaum
• Frats/Sororities
• APO- Meredith Frenchmeyer
• Hub- Jin
• Compost Club- Kelsey
• We would do research online, write a professional proposal
• Eventually meet with Dining and Gail and present proposal

Divestment Update

• Meeting with Skorton and investment committee
• Mike would like to come and represent Env. Committee
• Preparing for the meeting as a committee
  • Have at least one rep

GRF

� Jacob should come back after meeting with me and Adam � Sustainability day?

Plastic Bags

• Looking into BRB laws
• Emma- look up the Purchasing Director
• Volunteering

Sustainability Day / Hub updates

• What do we want our booth to be?
• April 22
• Hub is having career panel April 15
• Debate with Forensics Society on Divestment
  • SA listserv

New Initiatives?

• Transportation
• I will write a blurb and we can get new members!
• Paper towels
  • Hand dryers
  • Automatic
  • Composting them