Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 60.18
Liaison Martín Sanchez
Submission Date June 29, 2024

STARS v2.2

Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus Querétaro
OP-20: Hazardous Waste Management

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 1.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Part 1. Hazardous waste minimization and disposal

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?:
Yes

A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:

Tec de Monterrey's Campuses nationwide complies with the Federal Waste Managment Law, (FWML) that covers the exact procedures and guideliness to temporally storage, transport and dispose hazardous waste.


A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:

In compliance with the Federal Waste Managment Law, all of our Campuses have a temporal storage area confined for Hazardous Waste. Following the criteria and requirements of the FWML the storage areas contains all the safety measures to prevent any possible incident, such as laboratory safety showers and eye washes, fire extinguishers, proper ventilation, non-flamable construction materials and safety signs and labels per type of waste. All Campuse's collection suppliers for this type of waste must be registered in the public federation portal and have a waste transportarion permit.


A brief description of any significant hazardous material release incidents during the previous three years, including volume, impact and response/remediation:

Not aplicable


A brief description of any inventory system employed by the institution to facilitate the reuse or redistribution of laboratory chemicals:

Not aplicable


Part 2. Electronic waste diversion

Does the institution have or participate in a program to responsibly recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish electronic waste generated by the institution?:
No

Does the institution have or participate in a program to responsibly recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish electronic waste generated by students?:
No

If yes to either of the above, provide:

A brief description of the electronic waste recycling program(s), including information about how electronic waste generated by the institution and/or students is recycled:
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Is the institution’s electronic waste recycler certified under the e-Stewards and/or Responsible Recycling (R2) standards?:
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Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s hazardous waste program is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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