Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	65.37
Liaison	Alan Brew
Submission Date	Feb. 26, 2021

STARS v2.2

Northland College
OP-18: Waste Minimization and Diversion

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.69 / 8.00	Todd Pydo Executive Director Facilities and IT

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Parts 1 and 2. Waste per person

Figures needed to determine total waste generated (and diverted):

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Materials recycled	23.46 Tons	28.24 Tons
Materials composted	13.16 Tons	16.43 Tons
Materials donated or re-sold	3.20 Tons	3.20 Tons
Materials disposed through post-recycling residual conversion	0 Tons	0 Tons
Materials disposed in a solid waste landfill or incinerator	97.09 Tons	94.82 Tons
Total waste generated	136.91 Tons	142.69 Tons

If reporting post-recycling residual conversion, provide:

A brief description of the residual conversion facility:

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Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):

	Start Date	End Date
Performance Period	July 1, 2019	June 30, 2020
Baseline Period	Jan. 1, 2015	Dec. 31, 2015

If end date of the baseline year/period is 2004 or earlier, provide:

A brief description of when and why the waste generation baseline was adopted:

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Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users”:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Number of students resident on-site	370	386
Number of employees resident on-site	3	2
Number of other individuals resident on-site	0	0
Total full-time equivalent student enrollment	579	557
Full-time equivalent of employees	138	147
Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education	0	0
Weighted campus users	631	625

Total waste generated per weighted campus user:

	Performance Year	Baseline Year
Total waste generated per weighted campus user	0.22 Tons	0.23 Tons

Percentage reduction in total waste generated per weighted campus user from baseline:

4.96

Part 3. Waste diverted from the landfill or incinerator

Percentage of materials diverted from the landfill or incinerator by recycling, composting, donating or re-selling, performance year:

29.08

Percentage of materials diverted from the landfill or incinerator (including up to 10 percent attributable to post-recycling residual conversion):

29.08

In the waste figures reported above, has the institution recycled, composted, donated and/or re-sold the following materials?:

	Yes or No
Paper, plastics, glass, metals, and other recyclable containers	Yes
Food	Yes
Cooking oil	Yes
Plant materials	Yes
Animal bedding	No
White goods (i.e. appliances)	Yes
Electronics	Yes
Laboratory equipment	Yes
Furniture	Yes
Residence hall move-in/move-out waste	Yes
Scrap metal	Yes
Pallets	Yes
Tires	Yes
Other (please specify below)	Yes

A brief description of other materials the institution has recycled, composted, donated and/or re-sold:

The Northland Hockey and Soccer teams collected and donated used sporting equipment for the local community.

Optional Fields

Active Recovery and Reuse

Materials intended for disposal but subsequently recovered and reused on campus, performance year:

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Recycling Management

Does the institution use single stream recycling to collect standard recyclables in common areas?:

Yes

Does the institution use dual stream recycling to collect standard recyclables in common areas?:

Does the institution use multi-stream recycling to collect standard recyclables in common areas?:

Contamination and Discard Rates

Average contamination rate for the institution’s recycling program:

A brief description of any recycling quality control mechanisms employed:

Bold placards are placed above the recycling/waste stations, student Eco-Reps address recycling protocol and concerns with the student body several times per year, faculty and staff are reminded of acceptable recycling items directly at meetings and through email.

Programs and Initiatives

A brief description of the institution's waste-related behavior change initiatives:

Signage in the student union building make recycling bins prominent and easily accessible. Periodic competitions and recycling drives raise campus awareness of the importance of recycling. Students also help raise awareness through educational sessions at student government meetings.

A brief description of the institution's waste audits and other initiatives to assess its materials management efforts and identify areas for improvement:

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A brief description of the institution's procurement policies designed to prevent waste:

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A brief description of the institution's surplus department or formal office supplies exchange program that facilitates reuse of materials:

The Reuse Room on campus diverts about 3 tons of goods from the landfill every year. We have two Reuse Room student coordinators and two Recycling student coordinators who also oversee a campus move-out collection drive.

We also reuse envelopes for internal mailing and those envelopes are stored in every department. Reuseable mailing supplies are stored at the post office.

A brief description of the institution's platforms to encourage peer-to-peer exchange and reuse:

The coordinators of the ReUse Center and Recycling Center send out periodic email announcements to the campus, provide information on the campus schedule webpage, and create colorful posters to raise attention. Furthermore, a textbook reuse room provides shelves of books for many of Northland's academic classes. The books are free and available to everyone for pick up and drop off.

A brief description of the institution's limits on paper and ink consumption:

Double-sided printing is encouraged and made as the default on may copy/printing machines.

A brief description of the institution's initiatives to make materials available online by default rather than printing them:

The course catalog, course schedules, directories and many business processes and employee documents are all paperless. The Office of the Registrar and the Office of Human Resources as well as Information Technologies regularly seek ways to reduce paper use.

A brief description of the institution's program to reduce residence hall move-in/move-out waste:

The ReUse Center and Recycling Coordinators are on hand during the move-in/move-out process and work with the residence hall director to properly direct materials and eliminate wasteful overlap of resources.

A brief description of the institution's programs or initiatives to recover and reuse other materials intended for disposal:

The College works with Terracycle to recycle foil-faced chip/candy bags. The College also collects plastic shopping bags, batteries, toner cartridges, old pens, and electronics for recycling.

Website URL where information about the institution’s waste minimization and diversion efforts is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Baseline data (prior to 2015) is not available from either our current or former waste and recycling services provider.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.