| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.23 |
| Liaison | Jody Jones |
| Submission Date | March 18, 2024 |
Mount Royal University
OP-20: Hazardous Waste Management
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.00 / 1.00 |
Jorden
Dye Program Admin IES |
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indicates that no data was submitted for this field
Part 1. Hazardous waste minimization and disposal
Yes
A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Environmental Health and Safety has a hazardous waste program tailored to educating waste generators on the importance of compliant hazardous waste management. The past year has seen a concerted effort by the Faculty of Science & Technology to clear out old and unused chemicals for risk reduction and employee safety.
A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Hazardous waste, universal, and non regulated chemical waste is segregated from all other waste. It is classified appropriately as per the TDG requirements. Waste generator has a responsibility to contact Environmental Health & Safety department to remove waste from site. Waste is disposed by Sumas Environmental Services.
A brief description of any significant hazardous material release incidents during the previous three years, including volume, impact and response/remediation:
Mount Royal does not have any hazardous material release incidents to report.
A brief description of any inventory system employed by the institution to facilitate the reuse or redistribution of laboratory chemicals:
Currently, we are using CisPro as inventory system in Faculty of Science and Tech. Users input the chemicals that arrive and can track locations of the chemicals if they require to use them. The The Faculty of Science & Technology has shifted its inventory system to Chematix in 2018, and the functionality and usability continues to be evaluated. The laboratory technologist team has begun working more closely on coordinating consumable orders to maintain a shared chemical inventory of the most commonly used chemicals.chemicals are typically claimed by the departments in the Faculty, whereby users from different departments ask to borrow/use the chemicals that they need from the inventory.
New software is currently being investigated for implementation in 2018.
New software is currently being investigated for implementation in 2018.
Part 2. Electronic waste diversion
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:
"MRU Receiving sends e-waste generated by the University to a company called CSI EPC (formerly Top Flight Asset Services).
Program accepted waste: Desktops, towers, servers, laptops, notebooks, fax machines, scanners, copy machines, monitors, cell phones, land phones, switch boxes, office phone equipment, answering machines, car & wall chargers, bar code scanners, payment terminals, check readers, cash registers, printers, projects, dvd and cd players, microphones, smart boards, televisions, stereos, cds, dvds, micofiche, backup tapes, vhs tapes, hard drives, speakers, mouse, keyboard, docking stations, hard drives, power cables, batteries.
After a full audit and data wiping procedure of IT assets – for which customers receive a comprehensive asset-by-asset report – CSI EPC will then look to remarket the majority of equipment ensuring re-use, which is now considered to be the most environmentally-friendly form of recycling. Any equipment not fit for re-use is disposed of in compliance with applicable government standards. "
Program accepted waste: Desktops, towers, servers, laptops, notebooks, fax machines, scanners, copy machines, monitors, cell phones, land phones, switch boxes, office phone equipment, answering machines, car & wall chargers, bar code scanners, payment terminals, check readers, cash registers, printers, projects, dvd and cd players, microphones, smart boards, televisions, stereos, cds, dvds, micofiche, backup tapes, vhs tapes, hard drives, speakers, mouse, keyboard, docking stations, hard drives, power cables, batteries.
After a full audit and data wiping procedure of IT assets – for which customers receive a comprehensive asset-by-asset report – CSI EPC will then look to remarket the majority of equipment ensuring re-use, which is now considered to be the most environmentally-friendly form of recycling. Any equipment not fit for re-use is disposed of in compliance with applicable government standards. "
Is the institution’s electronic waste recycler certified under the e-Stewards and/or Responsible Recycling (R2) standards?:
Yes
Optional Fields
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
http://www.csiepc.com/
https://www.call2recycle.ca/consumers/
https://www.terracycle.ca/en-CA/about-terracycle/how_we_solve
https://www.call2recycle.ca/consumers/
https://www.terracycle.ca/en-CA/about-terracycle/how_we_solve
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