| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 63.24 |
| Liaison | Victoria Ho |
| Submission Date | Feb. 8, 2024 |
OCAD University
OP-18: Waste Minimization and Diversion
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.74 / 8.00 |
Louis
Toromoreno Director Safety, Security & Campus Operations |
Parts 1 and 2. Waste per person
| Performance Year | Baseline Year | |
| Materials recycled | 27.58 Metric tons | 22.67 Metric tons |
| Materials composted | 20.16 Metric tons | 0 Metric tons |
| Materials donated or re-sold | 4.68 Metric tons | 6.67 Metric tons |
| Materials disposed through post-recycling residual conversion | 0 Metric tons | 0 Metric tons |
| Materials disposed in a solid waste landfill or incinerator | 301.60 Metric tons | 266 Metric tons |
| Total waste generated | 354.02 Metric tons | 295.34 Metric tons |
If reporting post-recycling residual conversion, provide:
Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
| Start Date | End Date | |
| Performance Period | Jan. 1, 2023 | Dec. 31, 2023 |
| Baseline Period | May 1, 2016 | April 30, 2019 |
If end date of the baseline year/period is 2004 or earlier, provide:
The baseline is 2016 because the Council for Ontario Universities began requiring waste reporting from all Ontario universities in 2015-16. This year also represents work prior to when the OCAD U Sustainability Committee was formed in mid- 2016, and it is also recent enough that OCAD U can access the data.
Baseline years is an average over three years between 2016-2019.
Figures needed to determine "Weighted Campus Users”:
| Performance Year | Baseline Year | |
| Number of students resident on-site | 0 | 0 |
| Number of employees resident on-site | 0 | 0 |
| Number of other individuals resident on-site | 0 | 0 |
| Total full-time equivalent student enrollment | 4,896 | 4,286 |
| Full-time equivalent of employees | 1,032 | 913 |
| Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education | 0 | 0 |
| Weighted campus users | 4,446 | 3,899.25 |
Total waste generated per weighted campus user:
| Performance Year | Baseline Year | |
| Total waste generated per weighted campus user | 0.08 Metric tons | 0.08 Metric tons |
Percentage reduction in total waste generated per weighted campus user from baseline:
Part 3. Waste diverted from the landfill or incinerator
Percentage of materials diverted from the landfill or incinerator (including up to 10 percent attributable to post-recycling residual conversion):
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 | No |
| Plant materials | No |
| Animal bedding | No |
| White goods (i.e. appliances) | No |
| Electronics | Yes |
| Laboratory equipment | No |
| Furniture | Yes |
| Residence hall move-in/move-out waste | No |
| Scrap metal | Yes |
| Pallets | Yes |
| Tires | No |
| Other (please specify below) | No |
A brief description of other materials the institution has recycled, composted, donated and/or re-sold:
Campus Operations drops off surplus arts supplies, furniture, and clothing to Habitat for Humanity, Value Village, a local community centre, a local daycare, and a local high school.
Optional Fields
Active Recovery and Reuse
Recycling Management
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
A brief description of any recycling quality control mechanisms employed:
Institute has waste diversion program for cardboard, mixed containers, mixed papers, confidential, scrap metals and electronic wastes.
Programs and Initiatives
Initiatives include graphics campaign, class assignment collaborations, orientation and resources for OCAD U's largest annual event GradEx (graduating exhibition), provision of material reuse infrastructure and communications (ReUse Depot, Studio scrap bins), Salvage Yard event to support students to break down surplus materials into reusable or recyclable components.
A brief description of the institution's waste audits and other initiatives to assess its materials management efforts and identify areas for improvement:
Ontario Regulation 102/94 requires annual waste audits by public sector institutions to assess common recyclables such as glass, plastic, and paper as well as waste destined for landfill. Ontario has a goal to reach 60% waste diversion rate from landfill. OCAD U has completed a waste audit which identifies areas for improvement and recommendations for systemic changes. OCAD U has been working through the recommendations and is seeking continuous improvement.
A brief description of the institution's procurement policies designed to prevent waste:
OCAD U procurement guidelines compel purchases to question whether the purchase is needed in the first place. If a product or service is determined necessary, OCAD U's RFP technical questionnaire/scorecard includes dedicated questions to vendors about their organization's commitments to sustainability and the specific product or service attributes that support OCAD U's sustainability goals (move towards Net Zero by 2030). The organizational commitments include any business practices and operational decisions that support energy and water conservation, carbon emissions reductions, waste minimization, commitment to ethical supply chains such as to monitor labour practices, ensure safe working conditions, and comply with environmental management systems. Depending on the product or service, the vendor may be asked the below: - Provide details of your product's resource efficiency and sustainability such as: ENERGY STAR and/or EPEAT certification for energy efficiency; Water efficiency; Made from recycled materials; Designed for repairability; Use of and compatibility with paper with a higher postconsumer recycled content (minimum 50% PCRC); Protection under warranty. - Energy, climate, and water: Provide details of manufacturing plant actions to address greenhouse gas emissions, energy, and water consumption. This may include use of renewable energy, LEED-certified buildings, ENERGY STAR and EPEAT-certified equipment, water efficiency technology, energy efficient lighting, shifts in fleet vehicles and availability of consolidated deliveries, and use of FSC-certified paper stock. - Waste and resource recovery: Discuss how you minimize waste throughout the life of your product (e.g. design, manufacturing, and the waste management programs in place to avoid materials sent to landfill). Please include reference to your programs for reuse, refurbishment, and e-waste recycling by a certified facility. - Packaging materials: Does your packaging meet at least one of the below criteria? Please identify: - Uses bulk packaging - Uses reusable packaging (e.g., totes reused by delivery service for next delivery) - Uses innovative packaging that reduces the weight of packaging, reduces packaging waste, or utilizes packaging that is a component of the product. - Maximizes recycled content - Uses locally recyclable or certified compostable material. - Prohibits foam products manufactured with CFCs.
A brief description of the institution's surplus department or formal office supplies exchange program that facilitates reuse of materials:
Campus Operations stores surplus office furniture where possible to facilitate redistribution between departments. Campus Operations also carries out in-house repairs where possible.
A brief description of the institution's platforms to encourage peer-to-peer exchange and reuse:
OCAD U's ReUse Depot and other material reuse locations supports peer-to-peer exchange and reuse. https://www.ocadu.ca/services/odesi/sustainability/reuse-depot The ReUse Depot is an important opportunity for artists and designers to up-cycle, re-purpose or reuse materials that can inspire, explore creativity, or reduce students financial burden while redirecting the material from landfill. It’s a location for donating used but usable art & design materials and/or finding used items that will be useful to your creative practice. How it works: Visit the self-service ReUSE Depot cart on the 3rd floor of 100 McCaul Street, beside room 362 (near the IT Help Desk) for drawing tools, paints, sewing materials and other small tools, sheets of paper, frames and more. Give a little, take a little: Browse the selection and take only as much as you can and will use. Bring in any usable art supplies that you no longer need. Check out the other locations across campus, such as the DRPT ReUse Depot outside of Room 475 and the INTM Reuse Depot on Floor 3 and the scrap bins in the Wood, Plastic, Metal, and Textiles shops and studios on Floor 1.
A brief description of the institution's limits on paper and ink consumption:
OCAD U uses digital signatures and limits departmental printing budgets. Employees can set up digital signatures using Adobe Acrobat Pro to digitally sign documents through a certificate. Weekly check run prepared by Finance is now fully digitized with almost all submissions to Finance including some form of digital signature. Centre for Emerging Artists (CEAD) has licensed Adobe Sign and built workflows to allow students to digitally sign documents. OCAD U has also built in workflows with digital approval processes using Laserfiche, our electronic content management platform, which allows us to build forms and processes digitally. Regarding digital output (i.e. printing) there are two categories: high end digital output related to curriculum and studio activities. This would include large format, ink jet printing and specialized outputs based on specific technologies. The other is standard network based black and white printing. OCAD U is in the process of substantially reducing networked black and white printing by optimizing and reducing our current fleet of multi function (copiers) and single function (dedicated local printing) devices (estimated completion Sept 2023). There is no free printing for students and faculty and staff printing is invoiced to their department/faculty: https://ocadu.topdesk.net/tas/public/ssp/content/detail/service?unid=35f34d20c006417caf4d1a963f47444d https://ocadu.topdesk.net/tas/public/ssp/content/detail/service?unid=99d9605a46d64b299b69814f98104bcb https://ocadu.topdesk.net/tas/public/ssp/content/detail/service?unid=cae168b9de674f3d90abbd67a603cb5f
A brief description of the institution's initiatives to make materials available online by default rather than printing them:
OCAD U's course catalogues, course schedules, and directories are all available online by default. Through the TOPdesk Knowledge base, more and more departments are providing content to support student self service and providing access to relevant digital documents and forms via that platform.
A brief description of the institution's program to reduce residence hall move-in/move-out waste:
N/A no residence.
A brief description of the institution's programs or initiatives to recover and reuse other materials intended for disposal:
Website URL where information about the institution’s waste minimization and diversion efforts is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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