Campus clean-up 2024

To help maintain our beautiful University environment and in preparation for the start of 2024, Property and Facilities (P&F) are asking that all staff participate in a general campus clean-up/de-clutter during the period Monday 29 January to Friday 9 February 2024. We have a shared responsibility for maintaining a safe, tidy and productive working and learning environment at UQ. This includes reviewing common spaces and identifying opportunities to de-clutter, tidy or dispose.

This could include: 

• removing items from trafficable spaces such as pathways, building entrances, stairwells and corridors
• looking for opportunities to optimise the use of space and improve safety and aesthetics.   

P&F is supporting our campus clean-up by providing skip bins for the removal of large items between 29 January and 9 February. Following the success of previous campus clean-ups we will be providing 10 skips at St Lucia campus and one at Herston campus, as well as skips at Indooroopilly, Long Pocket, PACE, Pinjarra Hills and Gatton.

You must take into account health and safety regulations for manual handling, so if you have large items that you need assistance with, please log a REMOVALIST job in Archibus via your Archibus Nominated User and in your notes, please specify this request is associated with the campus clean-up project. We will then arrange assistance either through our own resources or UQ’s approved contractors.

The skip bins are to be used for General Waste only.

Hazardous waste should not be disposed in the skip bins. To reduce waste, recyclable items should be disposed in their designated recycling bins (e.g. paper, cardboard, e-waste bins) and good quality furniture items should be uploaded to UQ WARPit. UQ WARPit is an online resource sharing tool which allows UQ staff to post unwanted items for donation or claim items for work purposes.

Refer to the Recycling and waste website for more details

Please ensure when using the skip bins, you pack items to maximise the volume of the skip.

• Skip bin locations are listed below or see the map showing the locations here.

Skip bin locations

More information can be found on the Recycling and waste website.