Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
OP-23: Waste Diversion

The University has been making efforts through different programs in order to reduce, reuse and recycle solid waste. Some of the most important programs are the following: 1) Permanent Waste Recollection Campaign “Make it like in your home”. 2) The Program “Eco-Recycle” (Eco-Recicla) for electronic waste and all kind of batteries. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TugySWInxBA), (http://panucoaldia.diariodebate.info/2012/11/d1940-jornada-de-recoleccion-de-basura-electronica-cisneros/), 3) Integral Environmental Management University System 4) Common Areas Cleaning Day promoted by the Integral Security Management of the University (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbsD2G8v83E) 5) Since 2010, “Causa Eco” is a contest performed each year where the students can promote and bring ideas about a more sustainable University. One of the cases is to promote other ways to reduce, recycle and reuse the solid waste. (http://www.ultimasnoticiasenred.com.mx/el-lado-amable/impulsa-la-uat-cultura-ambiental/), (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHegkHpjKCg) 6) Tire Recycle Reuse and Research. On 2014, a faculty member of the Architecture, Design and Urbanism Academic Unit made a partition wall material reducing from 40% to 36% the sand and 4% of tire dust. This wall can be used like loadbearing with more life time than conventional ones. The faculty member with the University support, made 8 partition walls to evaluate the room temperature and they found that it function like insulator. This material reduce the costs and is more sustainable than conventional ones. (http://elquiosco.mx/desarrolla-universidad-autonoma-de-tamaulipas-tabiques-con-llantas-recicladas/)

COMMUNITY DINER PROGRAM There is a food donation for the Community Diner Program of the Science, Education and Humanities Faculty inside the main campus of our University (Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México). At the end of each semester, the faculty in charge of this program make a pantry with all the food that has not been used and it is distributed to all the students (35 students) that are in the Community Diner Program.

PRE-CONSUMPTION COMPOST: Since 2010, on The Science and Engineering Faculty there is a compost program where some students (called eco group) participate each week to recollect organic pre-consumption waste in order to generate grass and plants fertilizer through compost. Some faculty and the eco students group are in charge of following up the state of the compost. When the compost is ready, the University gardeners of that faculty use it to fertilize the green common areas.

POST-CONSUMPTION COMPOST The same program of pre-consumption is applied to post-consumption program in the Science and Engineering Faculty on the main campus of our University. Since 2010, on The Science and Engineering Faculty there is a compost program where some students (called eco group) participate each week to recollect organic pre-consumption waste in order to generate grass and plants fertilizer through compost. Some faculty and the eco group of students are in charge of following up the state of the compost. When the compost is ready, the University gardeners of that faculty use it to fertilize the green common areas.

Since 2010, recycle of some polymers such as: PET, PT, PP, PE on the Veterinary and Science and Engineering Faculties. The Social and Legal Sciences Faculty was in a campaign to recycle PET. (http://www.uacjs.uat.edu.mx/15019.html)