Campus Salvage raises money, gives donations
Imagine a giant yard sale where everything is $1. Even designer shoes and handbags. Larger items like microwave ovens and TVs are $10, and mini-refrigerators are $25. The goal is not to make money, but to get rid of stuff – recycle and reuse it.
It was the Campus Salvage sale where 25 PODS full of student castoffs – electronics, clothes, bedding, appliances, food – were gathered during move-out week May 2-7 and donated to nonprofits or sold to the public for very low prices. The crowds were on hand, to be sure, about 500 people strong, and more than $2,000 was made to recycle back into campus sustainability efforts.
Jennifer Sellers, sustainability coordinator at Coastal Carolina University, was pleased with the sale and is already making plans for next year's event. Faculty and staff have asked for a preview sale, so she is considering allowing volunteers who work a certain number of hours first pick at the sale, along with a free T-shirt.
But even before the sale, Campus Salvage gathered enough resources to make some major donations:
- 30 bags of clothes to the tornado relief efforts in Alabama.
- 3 bags of clothes, 8 bags of bedding, 15 shower caddies, to the women's shelter, Rahab House.
- 641 pounds of food to Lowcountry Food Bank.
- 20 bags of bedding, pillows and towels to Horry County Animal Care Center.
- 10 bags of clothing to Street Reach, Myrtle Beach.
- Three refrigerator-size boxes of items, five tote bins of shoes, four bags of clothes, plus TVs, lamps and appliances to Goodwill.
- 15 bags of clothing to Fostering Hope.
