ReDorm Joins Zero Waste Campus Council to Open the California Resource Recovery Association Conference
ReDorm joined campus sustainability teams from across California at UC San Diego for the Zero Waste Campus Council's monthly workshop, held in person to open the California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA) conference.
Instead of a conference room, the workshop was run as a walking tour of the campus, moving between the places where UC San Diego's diversion work actually happens.
The group included zero waste coordinators, housing and facilities staff, and student interns — among them a large contingent from across the University of California system.
One of the stops was the room where the campus collects everything students leave behind at move-out: a single space, stacked floor to ceiling with shelving units, storage bins, kitchenware, and small furniture. It is a small room doing a very large amount of work, and it supplied UC San Diego's first Move-In Market, which opened to incoming students on the ReDorm platform ahead of fall move-in.
With barely any marketing, the market cleared its opening inventory almost immediately. Students placed 174 orders and claimed 1,086 items in the first 48 hours! All this, weeks before the official move-in period, completely bypassing the worry of uncertainty of what the storage needs will be after move-in. Additionally, with the ability to set custom pickup times, intervals, and order limits, the staff never has to worry about rushes of students overwhelming a small team.
“Within 48 hours, we sold out of everything.”
Riccardo Gavardoni, a Green Programs intern at UC San Diego, described the platform as instrumental to getting the pilot off the ground.
“ReDorm has been really key to our success in this pilot.”
In that presentation, UC San Diego named ReDorm alongside EDCO, Plastic Beach, and Zabble as the vendors helping the campus reach its diversion goals, describing ReDorm as the online inventory tool that supported the university's first sustainable move-out in 2026. Instead of months of manual inventory, Eva Tyannikov, a UCSD Green Programs Intern explained that she was able to inventory the items in less than 4 days. ReDorm allowed the campus to quickly catalog and redistribute items from move-out to move-in.
“Eva was able to inventory it all on her own. She had me, but she didn't need me, because it was so easy to use.”
Lin also pointed to the platform's emissions reporting, which breaks out the Scope 3 impact of reuse — a category campus sustainability offices are only beginning to report against.
“I really like the Scope 3 emissions, because that's all new for the zero-waste side of things. That's a new reporting requirement… so that's really helpful as we all learn and navigate how to report that.”
For ReDorm, the day came down to what a very small team had managed to do with a very small room.
“What will stick with me the most is seeing how a tiny team, in a tiny room, barely in a first-year pilot, was able to divert over 2,000 lbs and displace 5.7 metric tons of Scope-3 emissions. I'm glad campus administrators from across the state saw that because it should light a fire that not only is it possible, but it is necessary, and with ReDorm, it is easy now too.”
Once UC San Diego runs its Move-In Market this September and students collect what they claimed, ReDorm will publish the complete picture of the program as a case study.
ReDorm works with campus housing and sustainability teams to run move-out collection, summer processing, and a campus-branded move-in storefront as one connected program, with impact reporting throughout.
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ReDorm makes dorm reuse programs easier to start and sustain, giving campus housing and sustainability teams the inventory, storefront, and impact-tracking tools to run move-out and move-in as one connected program.