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Students, staff, and faculty collect more than 5,000 pounds of clothing, food, and household items for local organizations
Lafayette students, staff, and faculty have collected more than 5,000 pounds of unopened food, clothing, personal and household items, as well as a truckload of furniture, discarded by students moving out for the summer as part of Lafayette’s Green Move-Out. All items are being donated to various local organizations to minimize waste.
The Green Move Out was sponsored by the College’s Informal Green Committee and Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection (LEAP).
Volunteers collected 300 pounds of towels and detergents to be given to the SPCA; 2,760 pounds of clothing to be given to the American Family Services Foundation; 2,076 pounds of unopened food to be donated to ProJeCt of Easton and Second Harvest Food Bank with loose food items, such as drinks and beverages, going to Safe Harbor; 175 pounds of books to be donated to Better World Books; and 90 pounds of coats, which went to Safe Harbor and American Family Services.
The workers also collected an entire truckload of furniture and household items consisting of sofas, beds, arm chairs, dressers, small refrigerators, air conditioners, and area rugs. Most of the items were given to American Family Services and the rest were given to David Hogenboom, professor emeritus of physics, to be taken to a furniture bank that he manages out of College Hill Presbyterian Church.
Volunteers collected items from designated drop-off areas established throughout the campus from May 12 – 18, and from graduating seniors and students living in off-campus housing May 25 – 26.
“The Green Move Out this year was very successful,” says volunteer Chris Palliser ’10 (Glen Cove, N.Y.), an economics and business major. “The project took a lot of hard work and communication between a number of different people. The goal of the project is to take things that would ordinarily be thrown in the trash, and to donate these items so that other people may re-use them. By doing so, we hope to make our campus a cleaner environment and more importantly, to raise awareness to others the importance of our project so that they may bring this newly acquired knowledge back to their hometowns.”