Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 53.56
Liaison Georgeann Moss
Submission Date Dec. 22, 2021

STARS v2.2

Dallas College
OP-19: Construction and Demolition Waste Diversion

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.74 / 1.00 Brandon Morton
Assistant Director of Sustainability
Office of Social Responsibility and Inclusion
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Construction and demolition materials recycled, donated, or otherwise recovered:
413.39 Tons

Construction and demolition materials landfilled or incinerated:
148.89 Tons

Percentage of construction and demolition materials diverted from the landfill or incinerator through recycling, donation and/or other forms of recovery:
73.52

Optional Fields 

A brief description of programs, policies, infrastructure investments, outreach efforts, and/or other factors that contributed to the diversion rate for construction and demolition waste:
Dallas College is in the process of establishing criteria for ongoing monitoring of construction and demolition waste. At the time of this report, one new construction project was involved in tracking C&D waste.

The annual North Texas C&D Recycling Summit has been at the Dallas College North Lake West Campus for several years and co-hosted by State of Texas Alliance for Recycling, USGBC North Texas Chapter, Construction Education Foundation, and numerous corporate sponsors.

Website URL where information about the institution’s C&D waste diversion efforts is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The figures reported in this credit are for one construction project at the Dallas College Coppell Center, and does not include other construction projects of Dallas College locations.

Total Tonnage from the new Construction Science Building currently under construction and opened Fall 2021.

Brick, 2.96 tons
Concrete, 380.07 tons
Other, 2.55 tons
Drywall, 11.92 tons
Metal, 0.71 tons
Paper/OCC, 0.61 tons
Plastic, 0.57 tons
Trash, 148.89 tons
Wood, 14 tons
Total Diverted, 562.28 tons or 73.52%

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