| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 48.64 |
| Liaison | Michelle Seppala Gibbs |
| Submission Date | May 2, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Hope College
OP-23: Waste Diversion
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.78 / 3.00 |
Kara
Slater Director of Operations Physical Plant |
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Materials diverted from the solid waste landfill or incinerator:
1,130.55
Tons
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Materials disposed in a solid waste landfill or incinerator :
776.05
Tons
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A brief description of programs, policies, infrastructure investments, outreach efforts, and/or other factors that contributed to the diversion rate, including efforts made during the previous three years:
In the Fall of 2016 we began a "Hope Recycles" campaign as a way to promote and engage students, faculty, and staff about recycling on campus. This included new signage on bins, posting information on various Facebook pages, and the campus intranet site.
Student interns for the Holland-Hope College Sustainability Institute hosted informational booths around campus during the 2017 Hope Recycles Week and even created a video that has since been published on the campus YouTube website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_f78hJcbt4
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A brief description of any food donation programs employed by the institution:
Hope College Dining Services donates all extra food to two local food missions - the Holland Community Action House and the Holland City Mission. These groups use this food for their daily meal programs in the Holland community.
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A brief description of any pre-consumer food waste composting program employed by the institution:
Hope College Dining Services composts 100% of their pre-consumer food waste. All food waste collected during preparation, combined with other campus composting, and removed by Spurt industries.
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A brief description of any post-consumer food waste composting program employed by the institution:
Hope College Dining Services composts all post-consumer food waste. All food waste filters through the dish rooms in the dining halls, where it is mulched to reduce volume by 50% and then placed in composting bins and later removed by Spurt industries, along with other composting on campus.
Dining Services uses environmentally friendly disposable products made of PLA (corn-based), potato, and pre- and post-consumer waste items.
Does the institution include the following materials in its waste diversion efforts?:
| Yes or No | |
| Paper, plastics, glass, metals, and other recyclable containers | Yes |
| Food donations | Yes |
| Food for animals | No |
| Food composting | Yes |
| Cooking oil | Yes |
| Plant materials composting | Yes |
| Animal bedding composting | --- |
| Batteries | Yes |
| Light bulbs | Yes |
| Toner/ink-jet cartridges | Yes |
| White goods (i.e. appliances) | Yes |
| Laboratory equipment | Yes |
| Furniture | Yes |
| Residence hall move-in/move-out waste | Yes |
| Scrap metal | Yes |
| Pallets | Yes |
| Motor oil | Yes |
| Tires | Yes |
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Other materials that the institution includes in its waste diversion efforts:
Approximately 120,000 cardboard boxes are added to our compost bins each year to help absorb moisture and help in the composting process.
In 2016, faculty in the Schaap Science Center began working with a local organization to collect and recycle Styrofoam materials. This was seen as a major source of waste for the labs due to shipping materials. The faculty in the Schaap Science Center are also making significant efforts to clean and re-use lab materials whenever it is possible (while complying with safety protocols).
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
For additional information, please visit: https://hope.edu/offices/sustainability/campus-sustainability/recycling-waste.html
In the past, food waste from Dining Services was collected and given to the animals on campus, but with a change in staffing this practice was not continued for a while. However, we have started discussions on this again.
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