Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
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Overall Score | 54.46 |
Liaison | Audrey McSain |
Submission Date | March 30, 2018 |
Executive Letter | Download |
Lehigh University
OP-21: Hazardous Waste Management
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.00 / 1.00 |
Gary
Falasca Director Facilities Services |
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Part 1
Yes
A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
The university's Environmental Health and Safety department has strict safety protocols for chemical waste. Training is constantly offered to employees and walkthroughs of lab spaces occurs with frequency. Eh&S is working toward identifying improvements to our laboratory chemical waste programs in an effort to increase the amounts of chemicals that are shared between laboratories.
A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Environmental Health & Safety requires that all hazardous waste is tagged, capped, closed and submitted to EH&S for proper disposal. Departmentally-generated batteries are disposed of through a campus approved vendor. Lamps, ballasts and mercury-containing equipment are also collected and sent to campus-approved licensed disposal contractor.
A brief description of any significant hazardous material release incidents during the previous three years, including volume, impact and response/remediation:
not applicable
A brief description of any inventory system employed by the institution to facilitate the reuse or redistribution of laboratory chemicals:
Chemicals no longer wanted by departments can notify EH&S to help either find a new owner or dispose of the materials properly.
Part 2
Yes
Does the institution have or participate in a program to responsibly recycle, reuse, and/or refurbish electronic waste generated by students?:
Yes
If yes to either of the above, provide:
Student e-waste program to commence in spring 2014. Students, faculty and staff can drop off unwanted electronic items to on campus collection point. Items that are still in usable condition can be selected to be sold at a community sale which raises money for K-12 homework clubs. Items not diverted to sale will be recycled by e-steward vendor.
Is the institution’s electronic waste recycler certified under the e-Stewards and/or Responsible Recycling (R2) standards?:
Yes
Optional Fields
21.79
Tons
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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