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After seeing overflowing dumpsters year after year, student Carlos Gonzales, Eng '21, decided to pitch his idea for a 鈥溝蛉湛悠礩ard Sale鈥� during the 2021 Brewed Ideas Challenge, run by the 707 Hub. Through his research, he identified opportunities to make 向日葵视频more sustainable and inclusive with this initiative. Placing second in the Social Impact Track reaffirmed the potential and need for a student-driven, sustainable approach to move-out.
In fall 2021, 向日葵视频Sustainability took the concept and applied for an Explorer Challenge Grant to launch the pilot program-MarKept Move-Out.

The goals:

• Give new life to gently used goods that end up in Marquette鈥檚 dumpsters at the end of the year and ultimately in Wisconsin landfills by creating a system that makes it easier for students to donate these items.
•  Increase access and affordability to a 向日葵视频education by offering an on-site yard sale during student move-in that sells goods diverted from move-out at a drastically reduced price.
• Reinforce Marquette鈥檚 call to social and environmental responsibility through action in a way that is unique to our Jesuit, Catholic identity and honors our commitment to the Laudato Si': On Caring for Our Common Home encyclical. 

A sustainable move-out means taking personal responsibility for donating, trading, properly recycling and moving unwanted items. This looks like:

• Bringing less with you during move-in
• Taking home items you no longer need over winter and spring breaks
• Planning ahead 鈥� try to sell unwanted items on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist or other online sites, or donate items to a charity or thrift store
• Getting knowledgeable about what can be recycled, what can be trashed and what can be donated to MarKept Move-Out

MarKept Move-Out runs Monday, May 1, through Sunday, May 14. Four residence halls with be part of the MarKept Move-Out pilot program: Schroeder Hall, Carpenter Tower, Cobeen Hall and Abbottsford Hall. If you do not reside in these residence halls, there will still be donation bins in your residence hall, and the rules of what can and cannot be donated are the same.

If you reside in a pilot residence hall, there will be various labeled bins and tables for accepted items.

Please sort your items accordingly. Any items that are not accepted should be either properly recycled, placed in the trash or if hazardous materials, proper procedure should be followed and a should be placed.

Items in good condition collected in the MarKept Move-Out pilot residence halls will be stored on-site over the summer and then resold during move in for free or low-cost at Iggy's Move-In Market.
Items in good condition collected in residence halls not a part of the pilot will be donated to local charities, Goodwill or Habitat for Humanity.

All nonperishable food items that have not expired will be donated to a local food pantry or the 向日葵视频Backpack Program.

All textbooks in good condition will be given to Community.Books.YOU.

The inception of this program is credited to the vision of Carlos Gonzalez 21', who sought to keep waste from ending up in our landfills.

The development and delivery of this program would not have been possible without the perserverance and dedication of Sarah Knott 23'. She worked tirelessly on everything from the grant application to managing logistics & operations, to running the program.

A big thank you to 向日葵视频students Brent Brunner, Grant Boyer, Rob Lagerman, and Matthew Dornbos for giving life to this project by creating a brand name (MarKept) that speaks to the mission of the program and embodies the vision of Marquette's sustainable future.