For the past five years, University of Alberta employees and volunteers have sorted through students' clothes, cupboard remnants and half-empty bottles of shampoo and conditioner, all to give items a new chance at life. From April 18 to May 3, they'll be doing it all over again.
Lauren Hall, sustainability coordinator at the University of Alberta, has been part of Eco Move Out since its second year in 2013, so she has seen it grow and change over the years since then.
As students rush to move out of residences at the end of each school year, they don't always have the means to rehome or properly dispose of unwanted items. Eco Move Out fills in the gap with donation bins for food, electronics, clothes, toiletries, furniture - even empty hand soap dispensers. Before Eco Move Out started in 2012, many of these goods ended up in the landfill.
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