| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 55.01 |
| Liaison | Katie Koscielak |
| Submission Date | May 8, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Cal Poly Humboldt
OP-21: Hazardous Waste Management
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.00 / 1.00 |
Thomas
Manoli EH&S Coordinator EH&S |
Does the institution have strategies in place to safely dispose of all hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste and seek to minimize the presence of these materials on campus?:
A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Humboldt State University operates using strict waste minimization guidelines which underlines all activities involving the use and procurement of hazardous chemicals and the hazardous waste generated by the campus. This includes educational training programs, consultation regarding substitution of toxic chemicals and cleaning agents, change in experimental procedures to use less volume of hazardous chemical and/or reduce volume/toxicity of chemicals as final steps in a process, and surplus chemical exchange.
A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Humboldt State University's EH&S department tracks and removes hazardous and chemical waste from all the campus generators and stores the waste in a secure facility until it is removed by contracted hauler. Humboldt State operates under a CSU wide contract to use the same waste hauler as other campus'. This waste handler was contracted based on meeting the appropriate benchmarks in the scoring matrix to ensure compliance with applicable criteria, such as emergency response and safety record. Universal waste that can be recycled are given to the sustainability program, whereas others are managed accordingly with other wastes and as such are then directed to the appropriate transfer and disposal facility via the contracted hauler. As part of this contract, as much of these wastes that can be reused or recycled are handled in this way. Some are burned for reclaimed fuel usage, and the rest are disposed of at the appropriate facility.
The website URL where information about hazardous materials management is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Waste minimization information can be found at: http://www.humboldt.edu/ehos/hazwaste.html and at http://www.humboldt.edu/hazmat/hazardous-materials.html
Waste minimization information can be found at: http://www.humboldt.edu/ehos/hazwaste.html and at http://www.humboldt.edu/hazmat/hazardous-materials.html
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