Columbia University Housing

Moving Out?
Donate Your Stuff!

Eco-Reps, in conjunction with Housing Services, Salvation Army, City Harvest, Rock and Wrap It Up!, Wearable Collections, Artist Society, The Institution Recycling Network, and Per Scholas have organized a campaign to help make donating your stuff to local charities easy during Move-Out.

Simply bring your unwanted items to a drop-off location instead of throwing them in the trash.

We'll take care of the rest.

In SPRING 2008: Students donated 5, 26 foot trailers of donations for the Salvation Army. In addition, they donated 500 lbs of non-perishable items to City Harvest. Great work!

In SPRING 2007: Students donated 700 lbs of food for City Harvest and filled 3 2/3, 26-ft long Salvation Army trucks with donations. Way to go!

 

SPRING 2009

DROP-OFF LOCATIONS

12pm-4pm each day

May 12: College Walk
May 13: Carman gate on 114th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
May 14: Wien gate on 115th Street between Amsterdam and Riverside

ITEMS TO DONATE

• toiletries
• art supplies
• all clothing in good condition (please bag),
• clothing in any condition will go to Wearable Collections
• unopened canned and packaged food (no perishables) will go to City Harvest
• kitchenware, including refrigerators, toasters, etc.
  
• appliances
• linens
• shoes
• accessories
• small furniture will go to Salvation Army*
• books
• large furniture:Please fill out a work order ticket to have very large pieces of furniture (two-seater, couch, table, etc.) removed prior to May 6. They will be brought to a local charity.
• computers* will be donated to Per Scholas, a local nonprofit organization that brings computers to low-income children and families and provides environmentally responsible recycling of end-of-life computer equipment.

*Please protect your privacy – before recycling or donating computers, permanently wipe your old hard drives using DBAN, a free file deletion program offered by CUIT.

OTHER INFORMATION

If you miss the drop off days you can still turn your trash into someone else's treasure. Try Freecycle or Craigslist

If you have any questions, call the Hospitality Desk at 212.854.2779.

Thanks for helping Columbia go green.

 

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Thanks for helping Columbia go green.