MoveOut ATX Promotes Sustainability With Donation Drop-Offs

AUSTIN, TX—MoveOutATX, an effort to help Austin students donate or recycle items no longer needed, will host drop-0ff stations throughout July at locations across the city. The city's pilot program created by the City of Austin and the University of Texas at Austin Office of Sustainability launched in 2018, and to date, MoveOutATX continues to promote its goals including:

• Encourage college students to reuse, resell, and donate unwanted material instead of throwing it “away”
• Create a process that can be repeated, scaled, and sustained by the community
• Move closer towards Austin's  Zero Waste goal
• Help increase used material donations and provide economic development opportunities for local reuse organizations
• Decrease clean-up costs for property managers and landlords
• Reduce eyesores for tenants and community members, post-move-out
• Minimize safety and health hazards during move-out

Students are invited to drop off their gently-used items the weekends of July 24 and July 30, with donations only accepted during operating hours.

Drop-off stations will be open from 12 noon – 7 p.m. on the following dates:

• Saturday, July 24
• Sunday, July 25
• Thursday, July 29
• Friday, July 30
• Saturday, July 31

Drop-off locations

• Camino Flats | 2810 Salado St.
• Escala Condos | near Poplar & San Gabriel St.
• Croix Condos | across from The Block, on 25th at 706 W 25th St.
• Cain & Abel’s | near the alley, 2313 Rio Grande [Note that this location closes at 5 p.m. each day]
• Pearl St. Co-Op | courtyard at 2102 Pearl St.
• 2207 Rio Grande | across from Hardin House

To learn more, visit the MoveOutATX website HERE.