Fanshawe encourages students to recycle more
Kailyn Smith is the environmental
program co-ordinator.
With the return of students as another academic year starts, Fanshawe hopes students will take the right steps to help manage waste on campus.
Last year, Fanshawe’s annual waste audit revealed some disappointing statistics on the college’s recycling habits. Of all the waste produced on campus, only 30 per cent was recycled and eight per cent was composted. This leaves Fanshawe at a total waste diversion rate of 38 per cent. But when auditors looked more closely at Fanshawe’s landfill stream, only 11 per cent of the stream was actually waste meant for landfill disposal. Auditors discovered that 69 per cent could have been recovered through composting and 20 per cent could have been recycled.
Waste diversion rate is the percentage that represents all of the waste that was diverted from landfill through effective recycling and composting practices. Here at Fanshawe, we have a goal to reach a total waste diversion rate of 65 per cent or more, but we can’t do it without your help.
Fanshawe has an extensive fourstream recycling and composting program, and we encourage all students to take the time to sort their waste.
We have a paper stream where most paper items such as printer paper, envelopes, magazines and newspaper can be recycled.
Our containers stream accepts most plastic containers (have a look on the bottom of your container for the plastic grade number found in the recycling symbol anything from 1-7 is accepted in our stream), glass and aluminum cans.
We also have an extensive organics stream where you can throw away food scraps, tea bags, coffee cups (no plastic lids though), and even soiled paper products like paper towel, napkins, paper plates and paper clamshells from in-campus food services.
The waste stream accepts items that are not recyclable, such as plastic film, candy wrappers, chip bags, plastic utensils and straws.
Fanshawe also offers an E-Waste recycling program that can be found in the Book Store. E-Waste allows for electronic waste such as batteries, cell phones, laptops, cameras or ink cartridges to be properly recycled.
We encourage everyone to do their part to help Fanshawe improve waste diversion practices on campus. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact us at recycle@fanshawec.com.
With the return of students as another academic year starts, Fanshawe hopes students will take the right steps to help manage waste on campus.
Last year, Fanshawe’s annual waste audit revealed some disappointing statistics on the college’s recycling habits. Of all the waste produced on campus, only 30 per cent was recycled and eight per cent was composted. This leaves Fanshawe at a total waste diversion rate of 38 per cent. But when auditors looked more closely at Fanshawe’s landfill stream, only 11 per cent of the stream was actually waste meant for landfill disposal. Auditors discovered that 69 per cent could have been recovered through composting and 20 per cent could have been recycled.
Waste diversion rate is the percentage that represents all of the waste that was diverted from landfill through effective recycling and composting practices. Here at Fanshawe, we have a goal to reach a total waste diversion rate of 65 per cent or more, but we can’t do it without your help.
Fanshawe has an extensive fourstream recycling and composting program, and we encourage all students to take the time to sort their waste.
We have a paper stream where most paper items such as printer paper, envelopes, magazines and newspaper can be recycled.
Our containers stream accepts most plastic containers (have a look on the bottom of your container for the plastic grade number found in the recycling symbol anything from 1-7 is accepted in our stream), glass and aluminum cans.
We also have an extensive organics stream where you can throw away food scraps, tea bags, coffee cups (no plastic lids though), and even soiled paper products like paper towel, napkins, paper plates and paper clamshells from in-campus food services.
The waste stream accepts items that are not recyclable, such as plastic film, candy wrappers, chip bags, plastic utensils and straws.
Fanshawe also offers an E-Waste recycling program that can be found in the Book Store. E-Waste allows for electronic waste such as batteries, cell phones, laptops, cameras or ink cartridges to be properly recycled.
We encourage everyone to do their part to help Fanshawe improve waste diversion practices on campus. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact us at recycle@fanshawec.com.
