Moving In

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Moving In

• Keene State College
• Keene, NH

• New Hampshire's Public Liberal Arts College

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Keene State College stats

• 2600 residential students.
• Roughly 1100 incoming first year students.
• First year residence hall re-established.
• Varied types of housing from typical double
  loaded corridors to suite and apartment living.

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Who is involved?

• Residential Life staff -
• including RDs and RAs
• Housekeeping
• Orientation Staff
• Physical Plant

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Preparations helpful hints Early Summer

• Does your school put recycling containers into
  student rooms? If the answer is yes, than an
  early summer assessment of need will be important
  to order and receive the bins in time.
• In addition, any cleaning of containers should
  occur early in the summer for inventory purposes
  and pest control.
• Here are some examples of container styles

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Preparations Container Styles
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Preparations Helpful hints Mid-Summer

• Work with housing staff to determine how many
  students will be moving in
• What day or days will students move in?
• Do you have first year student residence halls?
  Do they move in early?
• Talk with housing and housekeeping to see if they
  have concerns or issues relating to recycling or
  waste management

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Preparations Helpful hints Mid-Summer

• Walk through and around all of the residential
  buildings looking for
• Doors that might become trash dumps
• Doors that might need instructional signs
• Most convenient path to the recycling/waste
  management area
• Outside locations for Cardboard Corrals if you
  plan to use them

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Preparations Helpful hints Mid-Summer

• Develop list identifying all
• Cardboard Corral locations
• Sign locations
• Other items of interest
• (For example, in many years we will save rugs,
  trash cans and clothes hangers from the previous
  year and put them at the first year residence
  halls for students to take)

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Preparations Whats a Cardboard Corral?Orange
snow fencing with signage in obvious places
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Preparations Why use a Cardboard Corral?

• Cardboard is one of the biggest pieces of the
  Move In waste stream
• Corrals allow for source separation and easier
  clean up.
• Considerations include
• how to keep the trash OUT of the cardboard
• easily accessible and obvious locations

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Preparations Cardboard Corrals are effective
tools even if they get messy
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Preparations Helpful hints 1 month before move
in

• Check notes from previous year and update
  information
• If you use them, are your in-room recycling
  containers ready to go? Have you scheduled them
  to go into the rooms?
• Check on supplies such as snow fencing and stakes
  for cardboard corrals.
• What kinds of signage do you need?
• cardboard only, no dumping here, recycle here,
  trash here, etc.

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Preparations Helpful hints 1 month before move
in
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Preparations helpful hints - Blue MultiBags

• One for every room
• Printing on both sides that explains the program
  (or whatever you choose)
• Print out in each bag detailing where recycling
  and trash containers are located (if you choose)
• Work with RDs and RAs to get bags in every room.

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Preparations helpful hints - Blue MultiBags
Each insert is tailored to the building and
recycling system in place
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Preparations Helpful hints 1 week before move
in

• Make sure all in-room containers have been put in
  place.
• Put No dumping signs on all doors identified
  as potential trash drops.
• Put directional signs on all doors identified in
  earlier checks.
• Put up snow fencing
• Put out materials saved from previous move-out
• Get ready, Get set.

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Preparations How to manage the TRASH?
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Preparations How to manage the TRASH?

• We use tandem trucks one for cardboard and one
  for trash throughout opening week.
• Our in-house waste management allows us to
  schedule pick ups every day for the week after
  move in
• This year we are considering giving all students
  a trash bag to use

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Other considerations

• Keeping up with the deluge
• Move In Day
• Think about traffic pattern changes
• Timing the ability to get in and out of areas
  with workers and vehicles
• Use alternatives like workers on bikes
• The week after
• Plan to keep Corrals up for a week after move in
• Schedule additional pick ups for the first week
  after school begins.

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Preparations As with any event, good planning is
helpful

• Make a list of the relevant information and use
  it as you work with others directly involved in
  Move In.
• That way you are assured that everyone is on the
  same page.
• Once you develop notes, theyll only need to be
  updated from year to year

Good luck!