Does anyone know of office or university recycling programs that have been rolled out that have incorporated an experimental design (ie: testing what type of bins facilitate higher recycling rates, bin placement and numbers, office placement versus student hall placement etc)? I will be piloting a particular recycling system early next year and would like to collect some useful data on administrative and learning buildings at the same time. Has anyone done similar or know of some good studies that look at recycling rates in Universities?
Kind regards,
Melanie Barter
Environmental Officer
Facilities and Services Edith Cowan University
100 Joondalup Drive JOONDALUP 6027
email: [email protected]
ph: 6304 2232
mob: 0419 903 956
Recycling Experiments
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In our office (100+ employees), individual staff members are required to take their recyclables to recycling stations throughout the building, usually one in each department, located next to the photocopier. My experience is that if you provide recycling "boxes" for each desk you get a much higher rate of recycling within the office. If employees don't have a desk recycling container, then the level of effective recycling reduces dramatically, as it all gets thrown into the rubbish bin.
At present our general waste bins are all under the desks and the cleaner clears them daily. I would be interested to hear other results.
Also interested to hear if you hope to include "corporate worm farms" for organic waste - I've heard that Dept of Environment in Perth has some situated around the office... can anyone clarify?
Janine Munn
Waste Services Officer - City of Armadale Direct Tel: 08 9399 0127 Fax: 08 9399 0184 Office: 7 Orchard Avenue, Armadale Postal: Locked Bag No 2 ARMADALE WA 6992
Email: [email protected]
Web: armadale.wa.gov.au/government/servandfac/services/waste
Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY spent a great deal of time studying containers. Ken Bovis in the Architecture department would be a good contact. I do not have his number but he can be reached through the main number. 315-492-6048
Melanie:
I suggest you contact Kurt Teichert, at Brown
University for access to the College and University Recycling Council
(CURC) web page which contains an archive of discussions regarding
campus recycling issues. This would then give you access to same of the
major players in college and university recycling in the US. I believe
Brown University students did a project along those lines, Kurt advised
them.
Good Luck,
MD
--
Mark J. Darling
Program Coordinator
Recycling/Resource Management
Ithaca College
201 Physical Plant Building
Ithaca, NY 14850-7090
(607)274-1777
(607)274-1619 (Fax)
E-mail; [email protected]
www.ithaca.edu/remp
Melanie: I suggest you contact Kurt Teichert, at Brown University for access to the College and University Recycling Council (CURC) web page which contains an archive of discussions regarding campus recycling issues. This would then give you access to same of the major players in college and university recycling in the US. I believe Brown University students did a project along those lines, Kurt advised them. Good Luck, MD
-- Mark J. Darling Program Coordinator Recycling/Resource Management Ithaca College 201 Physical Plant Building Ithaca, NY 14850-7090 (607)274-1777 (607)274-1619 (Fax) E-mail; [email protected] www.ithaca.edu/remp
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. Aldo Leopold
Thought I would pass along this info. The Missouri Solid Waste Management Program focused it's grant program on solid waste audits and funded several audits for colleges and universities. The outcomes were recommendations on how to implement and improve recycling at the institutions. You may contact Pat Muck at 573 751 5401 by phone or the state web page at _www.state.mo.us_ (http://www.state.mo.us) and navigate to the solid waste management program. Hope this helps. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Quanzaa, Happy New Year or just Season's Greetings or Happy Holidays to all. Trying to be PC here
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