Rethink Your Waste in Regional

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Rethink Your Waste in Regional Municipal
Facilities
Implementing a Source Separated Organics Program
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Background
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Halton Regional Centre

• Started SSO program in 2008, shortly after single
  family roll-out
• 750 employees
• Full service cafeteria
• On-site daycare
• Police headquarters

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Baseline Data

• Waste Audit

 March 2011
Overall Waste Diversion 47
Recycle Capture Rate 65
Organic Capture Rate 48
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The Program
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Goals

• Launch a new cubicle and office waste collection
  system
• Implement an internal education campaign

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Objectives

• Reach a diversion rate of 70
• Increase capture rate of organic and recycling
  material
• Make recycling and composting as convenient as
  garbage
• Encourage participation
• Ensure cafeteria is fully participating in waste
  programs
• Train all staff handling waste

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Planning
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Waste Changes

• Change internal collection system
• Cleaning contractor will no longer collect waste
  from cubicles
• Existing garbage bins will be removed
• New waste bins delivered (including mini garbage
  bin, compost bin, and if necessary a recycling
  bin)
• Staff will bring all waste to a centralized area

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Communication Plan

• Very detailed communication plan, focusing on
  educating staff

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Communication Tools
cafeteria display
Ask Sprout Kirby
online Q A
information package
cubicle reminders
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Implementation
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Implementation

• Sunday delivery
• 4 teams of three
• Took away cubicle garbage bins
• Delivered new bins

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Tools
Mini garbage can
Compost bin
Recycling bin
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Evaluation
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Waste Audits

• May 2012

 
Overall Waste Diversion 77.96
Recycle Capture Rate 92.7
Recycle Contamination 3.8
Organic Capture Rate 81.5
Organic Contamination 1.5
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Best Practices

• Make organics and recycling as convenient as
  garbage
• Have staff dispose of all waste material
• Provide a good education and promotion program
• Be prepared for negative comments
• Deliver bins on a non work day
• Get upper management support
• Provide results to staff (how well are they
  doing)

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Expanding the Program
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Additional Regional buildings

• Provide the same program changes to all satellite
  facilities owned by Halton Region

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Municipal Facilities
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Municipal Facilities

• City of Burlington
• new internal waste receptacles
• compostable bags
• Halton Region
• assisted in the implementation and training of
  staff
• provided 360L Recycling and Organics bins for
  external collection
• education materials (posters, flyers, etc)

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Implementation

• Phase 1
• Implement SSO program for staff (behind the
  scenes)
• Staff offices, lunch rooms, staff washrooms,
  behind concession stands
• Phase 2
• Implement SSO program into Public Space areas
• Lobbies, public washrooms, party rooms

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Waste Stations
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Waste Stations
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Waste Audits
 December 2012 Arena Com. Centre
Overall Waste Diversion 21 53
Potential Diversion 70 83
Recycle Capture Rate 67 78
Recycle Contamination 54 28
Organic Capture Rate 19 53
Organic Contamination 12 9
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Next Steps

• Working with the City of Burlington to decrease
  contamination
• Better education materials
• Better placement of bins
• More information sessions etc.
• Will not move forward with Public Space SSO
  programs until contamination rates are lower

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Contact
Nicole Watt GreenCart Program
Coordinator Halton Region 905-825-6000 x
8234 nicole.watt_at_halton.ca
_at_HaltonRecycles www.haltonrecycles.ca /HaltonRec
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