unsw - how we manage waste and recycling
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UNSW Sustainability
What happens to our waste?ARTS 2243: Waste and Society > Recycling and Re-use at UNSW
What waste do we produce?Accumulative recovery report
24%
12%
4%
33%
27%Paper & cardboardMixed containersPlastic filmFood & organicsLandfill
1 month 125.2t1 year 82.2
Tonnage of
Recovered Waste
24%
12%4%
33%
27%
17%
Paper & cardboard
Mixed containers
Plastic film
Food & organics
Greenwaste
Landfill
What waste do we produce?Accumulative recovery report
April 198tJune 121.90tJuly 145.06t
Tonnage of
Recycling Streams
Waste reductionDisposable coffee cups
13,520,000 cups a year
3%39 Tonnes
per year
of our waste!
Waste reductionOne Simple Solution
Reusable Cups
Keep Cups Available from Bookshop & Arc Gift Shop
Public place recycling
Recycling can work with your help
Two bins:
Public place recycling
Red is for General waste
Yellow is for Beverage containers
Paper & cardboard
What happens to our paper and cardboard?
Paper & cardboard
Desk bins for recycling
Recycling 800 tonne/yearUNSW makes money from recycling paper & cardboard
Staff and student responsibility to empty paper into blue wheelie bins
Recycling makes money
Recycling boxes available from stationary re-use centre, ARC, FM Assist, room 224A Chancellery or on request.
Blue Bins in Library + corridors
AMCOR’s Botany Recycling Plant
Paper & cardboard
Plastic contamination separated
All paper and cardboard is processed and recycled within
72 hours from delivery
Fibrous film at one end, dry recycled paper out the other end
Fibrous sludgeFinal recycled product
Batteries & mobile phones
More than 800 mobile phones
collected each year
Recycled by Mobile
Muster for free
Batteries & mobile phones Mobile phones
Where?Lower Campus: ARC Reception
Upper Campus: FM AssistMid Campus: Contact
Batteries & mobile phones
Batteries contain toxic and hazardous heavy metals
Batteries
Battery World recycling station where all batteries are recycled at expense of UNSW
Printer toner cartridges
Successful staff volunteer
initiative
Printer toner cartridges
Sent to Close the Loop in Melbourne
Planet Ark
Some remanufactured with remainder of plastic and metal recycled
Printer toner cartridges
Over 5,788 reuses since UNSW service began
46%
Cara Toner
of cartridges collected from UNSW are reused
A successful staff volunteer initiative
Reverse vending machines
The Fun Theory> Accept empty drink containers.
> Eliminate contamination. Material 100% recyclable.
> Reduces cleaning costs - An average wheelie bin holds between 100 & 150 containers. Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers = to 25 wheelie bins.
> Give users vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle.
> Check out www.thefuntheory.com.
Our experience to date> Expensive technology.
> Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations.
> Networked and vulnerable to hacking. The Fun Theory
Reverse vending machines accept empty drink containers
Reverse vending machines
Reverse vending machines
The Fun Theory> Accept empty drink containers.
> Eliminate contamination. Material 100% recyclable.
> Reduces cleaning costs - An average wheelie bin holds between 100 & 150 containers. Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers = to 25 wheelie bins.
> Give users vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle.
> Check out www.thefuntheory.com.
Our experience to date> Expensive technology.
> Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations.
> Networked and vulnerable to hacking. The Fun Theory
Eliminates contamination = Material 100% recyclable
Reverse vending machines
Reverse vending machines
The Fun Theory> Accept empty drink containers.
> Eliminate contamination. Material 100% recyclable.
> Reduces cleaning costs - An average wheelie bin holds between 100 & 150 containers. Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers = to 25 wheelie bins.
> Give users vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle.
> Check out www.thefuntheory.com.
Our experience to date> Expensive technology.
> Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations.
> Networked and vulnerable to hacking. The Fun Theory
Reduces cleaning costs > An average bin holds 100-150 containers
Reverse vending machines
Reverse vending machines
The Fun Theory> Accept empty drink containers.
> Eliminate contamination. Material 100% recyclable.
> Reduces cleaning costs - An average wheelie bin holds between 100 & 150 containers. Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers = to 25 wheelie bins.
> Give users vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle.
> Check out www.thefuntheory.com.
Our experience to date> Expensive technology.
> Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations.
> Networked and vulnerable to hacking. The Fun Theory
Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers
Reverse vending machines
Reverse vending machines
The Fun Theory> Accept empty drink containers.
> Eliminate contamination. Material 100% recyclable.
> Reduces cleaning costs - An average wheelie bin holds between 100 & 150 containers. Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers = to 25 wheelie bins.
> Give users vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle.
> Check out www.thefuntheory.com.
Our experience to date> Expensive technology.
> Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations.
> Networked and vulnerable to hacking. The Fun Theory
Users are given vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle
Reverse vending machines
Reverse vending machines
The Fun Theory> Accept empty drink containers.
> Eliminate contamination. Material 100% recyclable.
> Reduces cleaning costs - An average wheelie bin holds between 100 & 150 containers. Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers = to 25 wheelie bins.
> Give users vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle.
> Check out www.thefuntheory.com.
Our experience to date> Expensive technology.
> Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations.
> Networked and vulnerable to hacking. The Fun Theory
Check out…
Reverse vending machines
www.thefuntheory.com
Reverse vending machines
The Fun Theory> Accept empty drink containers.
> Eliminate contamination. Material 100% recyclable.
> Reduces cleaning costs - An average wheelie bin holds between 100 & 150 containers. Reverse Vending Machines hold 3,000 crushed containers = to 25 wheelie bins.
> Give users vouchers & prizes as incentives to recycle.
> Check out www.thefuntheory.com.
Our experience to date> Expensive technology.
> Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations.
> Networked and vulnerable to hacking.
Our experience to date:Expensive technology
Footprint, power & IT requirement limit possible locations
Networked and vulnerable to hacking
Reverse vending machines
Garden waste
Bore water primarily used for
irrigation of the grounds
Garden waste
All tree pruning off-cuts and other green waste is processed on-site and mulch is used on garden beds.
All other lawn clippings, leaf material and garden organics collected and transported to Veolia waste station at Botany for processing.
UNSW uses organic fertilisers for gardens, lawns and sports fields.
Glass recycling
Waste audit found glass is 3rd
largest in composition of our waste
Glass recyclingA limited but successful glass recycling stream at:
The Roundhouse Bar
Goldstein College
New College
Scientia Building
The Roundouse
Fluorescent tubes & light globes
Fluorescent tubes contain enough mercury to pollute 30,000 litres of water beyond the safe drinking level
Fluorescent tubes & light globes
ChemsalRecycling and disposal by Chemsal
Collect fluorescent, CFL, incandescent, halogen, High Intensity Discharge lamps (HIDs) discharge light bulbs/lamps including associated ballasts and transformers
SpotlessStored in the Spotless compound on Western Campus with periodic collection by Chemsal
Collected on request via FM Assist (Ext: 55111)
Biological & hazardous waste
Specialist contractors dispose of biological
and hazardous chemical waste
Biological & hazardous waste
ChemsalDangerous waste: organic solvents, oxidise, pesticides and “ionising radiation emitting materials not considered to be radioactive” (low level radioactive waste < 100 Becquerel/gram)
Hazardous waste generated from research
SterihealthBiological, clinical waste, ionising radiation emitting materials not considered to be radioactive, human tissue, biological chemicals and other toxic substances.
Construction & demolition
On-site separation of waste for re-use or recycling
Development of a Construction Site Waste Management Plan.
Construction Waste includes:
Capital works criteria includes:
Waste management conditions are available for Consultants and Contractors undertaking projects
Waste management conditions imposed under contract
Plaster board, Concrete, Bricks, Steel, Cables and Packaging.
What happens to our waste?
Waste contract with Doyle Bros Material Recycling Facility > 80% recycled
Recyclables market
Recycled aluminum reduces mining and smelting emissions
Recyclables market
Bales of dirty plastic are separated and can be recycled
Recycled baled paper & cardboard reduces deforestation and environmental impact
Recyclables market
Reducing waste
Water refill stations
= Refill not landfill
Reducing wasteA step toward reducing plastic water bottle waste
Stationery reuse
Stationery Re-use Centre at Level 2, Quad East Wing
Second-hand stationery free for students and staff
Stationery reuse
Stationery donated by UNSW staff and corporations
Operated by ARC volunteers
Stationery reuse
Estimated 4,000 items in last 12 months including approx 1,500 folders, envelopes, plastic sleeves, hanging files, in-trays, clipboards andother random things
Successful student initiative
Container Deposit Legislation
Ten cent refund on beverage containers
Container Deposit Legislation
Regulatory Impact statement underway
Container Deposit Legislation
Opposed by beverage companies & Packaging Stewardship Forum
Electronic waste TV & PC Product Stewardship Scheme
Product Stewardship Act 2011:
TV’s & computers first products to be regulated.
Responsibility for recycling passed back to manufacturer.
Eventually all devices with a power cord to be included.
Hopefully running by 2011/12.
Food waste & reuse
Excess food is distributed to charities
supporting the vulnerable
Food waste & reuse
Food rescueExcess food given
to OzHarvest
Food waste & reuse
Cooking OilUp to 800 litres
a week is collected from campus outlets
The carbon price & waste
190 of 500 facilities directly liable for
carbon tax are waste facilities
Carbon price $23 per tonne from 1/07/12
The carbon price & waste
1 tonne of methane = 23 tonne of CO2 equivalent
Waste produces methane
The carbon price & waste
Landfill more expensive and
recycling more cost effective
Emissions from landfill
The carbon price & waste
Fee to rise from $220/tonne now to $300/tonne from 1 July 2012
Landfill General Waste tip fee
Our commitment to reduce waste
There’s less than 10 years of landfill in the Sydney basin
UNSW: Environment Policy and Waste Management Plan
Rethink of waste as a valuable resource
Our commitment to reduce waste
Sustainable processing of materials based on fundamentals of high temperature
Our commitment to reduce waste
Professor Veena SahajwallaCentre of Sustainable Materials Research & Technology
Sustainable processing of materials based on fundamentals of high temperature
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UNSW Sustainability
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