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Title: Recycling


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Recycling Solid Waste Management
  • APPA Facilities Management Institute
  • January 2006
  • Presented by
  • Erica Spiegel
  • University of Vermont
  • Burlington, VT

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Course Outline
  • Integrated Approach to Waste Disposal
  • Role of Facilities Management
  • Economics of Garbage
  • Collection Operations
  • Organizational Issues
  • Related Programs Opportunities
  • Conclusions / Wrap Up

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Integrated Approach to Disposal
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Why Recycle?
  • If done right, it can save your institution money
    by lowering trash disposal costs
  • Environmental benefits
  • Mandated by some states
  • Students customers expect it
  • Basis for comprehensive greening and
    sustainability programs

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Recycling its a process, not a destination
Processing Remanufacturing (turning scrap into
a new product)
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Why the Recycling Function belongs in facilities
management?
  • Better performance, more service-oriented
  • Logical to pair recycling with trash program
  • Reduced trash disposal costs

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Challenges to a Successful Recycling Program
  • Transient population
  • Multiple departments to coordinate
  • Apathy or disinterest
  • Negative national media about recycling
  • Space storage constraints
  • Building design
  • Fluctuating markets
  • Lack of nearby infrastructure
  • Declining competition in private hauling sector
  • Funding
  • Selection of proper equipment

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Other Challenges?
  • What other challenges is your recycling program
    facing?
  • What would you like to learn about today?

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Opportunities for Successful Recycling Program
  • Students can help
  • Partnerships within campus community
  • Partnerships inside outside campus
  • Professional Networking- NRCs College
    University Recycling Council (CURC)

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Garbage Economics 101
  • Tipping Fees vary be region
  • Avoided Disposal Costs are a primary reason to
    recycle and reduce waste
  • Balancing Act The cost of collecting
    trash/recycling within a building vs. cost of
    collecting trash/recycling from the building.

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Collection Operations
  • Where the rubber hits the road

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Collection IssuesInside Buildings
  • Frequency
  • Scheduling
  • Equipment
  • Ergonomics
  • Staffing

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Collection IssuesOutside Buildings
  • Storage
  • Equipment
  • Frequency
  • Routing
  • Vehicles
  • Who Collects It

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Collection Equipment Options
At-Desk Box or Individual Bins
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Central Receptacles Many different shapes,
styles, colors and price ranges are available
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Recycle Trash Parity
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Containers with Restricted Openings
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Built-In Containers proper sizing and
location are key
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University of Oregon
Humboldt University
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Roll Carts Tilt Trucks
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Rear Load Containers
Front Load Containers
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Roll-Off Containers
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Compactors (Self-Contained or Stationary)
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Roll-Off Truck
University of Colorado
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Hauling Vehicles
  • Rear load
  • Front load
  • Side-load
  • Roll-off/Lift Hook
  • Pickup/Dump Truck
  • Cube Van/Box Truck

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Destination
Where does all this stuff get hauled to?The end
market will determine what materials you can
collect and the specifications for those
materials.
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Intermediate Processing Facility
Some schools have their own facility to
consolidate materials for longer distance
shipping.
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Material Recovery Facility (MRF)
Materials are dumped onto a tipping floor.
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Material Baled Ready to be Shipped to Market
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Homework Assignment Map your current campus
recycling program from Finish to start
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Organizational Issues
  • Program Structure and Management
  • Administration Support
  • Personnel
  • Funding Budgeting
  • Contracting Issues
  • Measurements Benchmarking
  • Outreach Education

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Program Structure Management
  • Student operated program
  • Staff Operated- Facilities Management or
    Physical Plant- Auxiliary Services (e.g.,
    Purchasing)
  • Complete privatization

36
Personnel Involved
  • Solid Waste Manager
  • Recycling Coordinator
  • Laborers (Custodians, Truck Operators, etc.)
  • Student Employees
  • Recycling Committee Involve others in planning
    and implementation

University of Massachusetts Waste Management Dept
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Administration Support
  • Nice to have a policy, but.
  • Striving for an organizational culture that is
    aware of waste and its costs to the institution
    and the environment, and therefore reduces,
    reuses, recycles and composts as a matter of
    practice.

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Funding Budgeting
  • General Fund, Residential Life, Auxiliary
  • Grants or loans
  • Student Fees
  • Fee for Service work
  • Avoided disposal costs
  • New Facilities requests (based on sq. ft.)
  • Revenue from sale of materials
  • Revise or restructure trash hauling contracts

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Contracting Issues
  • Only pay for trash your campus generates
  • Avoid flat fee contracts
  • Weight slips, verification
  • Know where loads are going
  • Insurance issues
  • Flexibility in service schedules/sizes
  • Competitive bidding
  • Lease versus own containers

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Benchmarking Measuring
  • Weight (tons) vs. Volume (cubic yards)
  • Financial Measures(e.g., per ton, per Sq
    Ft, per FTE)
  • Diversion Measures(e.g., recycling rate, capture
    rate)

Recycling Rate Tons of materials
recycled Tons of materials recycled trash
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Keeping Track of Data
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Outreach Education
  • Consider different audiences
  • Strategies and Ideas
  • Good signage
  • Web page, Brochure
  • Bulletin Boards
  • Flyers, Posters, Door tags,
  • Etc. etc.

Pass around samples
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Other Program Opportunities
  • Waste Reduction and Reuse
  • Composting
  • Buying Recycled Products
  • Special Materials
  • Student Move-Out/Move-In campaigns
  • Building Design Issues

44
Waste Reduction Reuse
Waste Reduction can be simple!
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Supply Reuse Programs
  • Office Supply Collection And Reuse (OSCAR)
  • Reusable Office Supply Exchange (ROSE)

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Composting
  • Yard Grounds Waste
  • Grasscycling
  • Windrow Composting

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Compostingwait, theres more
  • Food Waste (pre-/post-consumer)
  • Animal Bedding (from labs or farms)
  • Vermi-composting (worms)
  • In-Vessel Composting
  • Windrow Composting

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Compostingstill, theres more
  • Capturing more food waste from residence halls.
  • Composting at special events.
  • New bioplastics to test out.

49
Buying Recycled Content Products
  • Office paper
  • Tissue products
  • Office supplies
  • Construction materials
  • Plastic lumber

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Special Hard to Handle Wastes
  • Appliances white goods
  • Phone Books
  • Fluorescent Bulbs
  • E-waste

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  • Carpeting
  • Mattresses
  • Confidential Paper
  • Scrap Metal
  • Wood Pallets

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  • Tires
  • Concrete/Asphalt
  • Surplus Furniture
  • Construction Debris
  • Power Plant Ash

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Student Move-In
Great opportunity to capture clean corrugated
cardboard
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Student Move-Out
  • Charitable donations Food, Clothing, Household
    Items
  • Furniture
  • Loft Wood
  • Concrete Blocks
  • Carpets/Rugs

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Design for Material Handling
  • We must have better designs to accommodate safe
    and efficient materials handling
  • Build good relationships with your architecture
    engineering group on campus

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Side load compactor height is too high for
average custodian to safely lift bags
Dock fed compactor more ergonomically friendly
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Design Standards and Guidelines
By far, the best example is from UNC Chapel Hill
http//www.fac.unc.edu/OWRRGuidelines
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Conclusions
  • Recycling Basics
  • Collection Operations
  • Organization
  • Other Programs Opportunities for Waste
    Reduction

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Resource Listin your packet
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Join the RECYC-L List
College and University Recycling Coordinators
Listserve (approximately 140 subscribers)
ltRECYC-L_at_ListServ.brown.edugt
Send email with subject Subscribe Recyc-L In
message Write a short e-mail introducing
yourself and your schooland you will be added to
the list.
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