Click here for a list of acceptable donations. Click here for a list of drop-off locations.

For specicfic information: RDs & RAs | Short Term Employment

What is Jumbo Drop? Outgoing students often leave a lot behind. About six years ago a group of Tufts students started a program to collect the goods students leave behind to save them from a landfill. The program has since been adopted and run by the Tufts Recycles! program which is part of the Facilities Department.

What happens to the stuff? Due to space and budgetary constraints, most donations will be directly donated to charity this year, rather than the past process which involved paying large fees for storage and costs to run a fall yard sale. Many donations will go to the International Institute of Boston which is an organization that helps settle refugees and immigrants. We also plan to assist Catholic Charities’ domestic violence victim’s resettlement program. Goodwill Industries and The Salvation Army will also take some of the donations. Jumbo Drop accepts non-perishable food which will be donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank. If you know of a charity in need, please contact us: recycle@tufts.edu

How can I donate? The jumbo drop boxes will be distributed starting the last week of April. Boxes will be located in a dorm's common area which is commonly in or near the foyer. Each dorm will have one drop site, with the exceptions of the apartments where we try to put more. A list of sites will be linked here after distribution is complete. Click here for a list of acceptable donations.

Drop sites will have a box for clothing and linen and a box for everything else. Only clean clothing and linens are acceptable. Items larger than a chair can be donated by marking it with a jumbo drop sticker and leaving it in the room (We will check rooms after all have moved out. Donated items left in the room must be marked or we will not take them and they risk disposal; we do not have the work force to judge what has or has not been left as a donation).

Jumbo Drop donation stickers will be distributed to RAs and RDs when the boxes go out at the end of April.

Pictures of the Action 2003-2008

On To The Next Stop	Fun Stuff!	Lunch Time
Where To Start?!	Smile!	Everyone Helps Out
Bad Idea! Don't trash it-donate!	Waiting For a Ride	On To The Next Stop 2

Tufts Recycles!
Dawn Quirk, Recycling Coordinator
617/627-3810
recycle@tufts.edu