Overflyeration
The Overflyeration project is a coalition of many students, Green Classroom Renovations Interns, Campus Recycling and Refuse Services, staff, the Overflyeration Fellowship student group as well as Steam that is gaining momentum in its effort to reduce Overflyeration--that is, the excessive and wasteful posting of fliers across the campus, the posting of dozens of a single flier across a single publicity board, the misuse of financial and natural resources by these groups for excessive flyering. Bulletin boards can be a useful way to spread the word about campus events, but many student groups and outside companies post far too many of the same flier, competing among one another for space, creating a mess of paper and tape that then gets ripped down and often thrown in the garbage.
The Overflyeration project coalition is collaborating to create rules and regulations for posting flyers, monitor and enforce these rules and work with ASUC to help by creating effective policies to encourage students to conserve paper. Steam intends to propose various policy ideas to ASUC. Come brainstorm with us!
These rules that are now being enforced in selected buildings (Wheeler and Dwinelle Halls) are:
- One flyer per public board per student group (students must have special permission to post on boards owned by specific departments)
- Flyers will be taken down (either by student groups or Overflyeration volunteers) after 15 days or after the event featured on the flyer
- Absolutely no flyering in/on classrooms, bathrooms, hallways, doors and ADA buttons
- No posting over current flyers (posting over a flyer for a past event is acceptable if there is no other space)
- Student groups who have numerous violations may have all or just their excess flyers removed and/or may have to complete two hours of community service for the campus
See http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~recycle/flyer/ for a complete list of rules and regulations going into effect immediately in Wheeler Hall.