Dump & Run

Excerpted from an article by Julie Flaherty
in the education section of the 8/6/00 New York Times:
Lisa Heller, who this fall will be a teacher at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, has started Dump & Run Inc., a nonprofit service to collect college students' castoff items in the spring and sell them to incoming students in the fall (she calls these events Recycle Sales), with the proceeds going to charity. She is currently running the program at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where she collected items last spring. She is storing the items in her barn and will sell them to incoming students on Labor Day weekend. Heller got the idea when she was teaching at the University of Richmond. Last year, this program raised $2,700 for charity there, and cut the university's post-student-evacuation garbage pickups in half. Examples of the items sold and the prices they charged include: Half-full bottles of laundry detergent for $1; working hair dryers for $5; and mini-refrigerators for $25 to $50. Heller said her goal is to have 10 colleges doing Dump & Run collection programs and sales by next spring.

Dump & Run - http://www.dumpandrun.org/