With students clearing out their dorms and apartments for the summer they often toss whatever won’t fit in their cars for the drive home. Often perfectly good items find their way onto the street for the taking.

At the University of Pennsylvania this time of year is called “Penn Christmas”. According to an article on Philly.com, blenders, refrigerators, books and microwaves were among the things left behind.  In years past it has been an all out free for all to grab the free goods but this year the chaos will be much more controlled.

All discarded items will be collected by Penn officials and distributed to homeless shelters, food banks and literacy centers. The initiative is named PennMOVES and was advertised throughout campus to ensure full participation from students.

Temple had a similar effort to collect cast offs and will be distributing them to community groups and churches.