| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 57.01 |
| Liaison | Meghna Tare |
| Submission Date | April 3, 2022 |
University of Texas at Arlington
OP-20: Hazardous Waste Management
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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1.00 / 1.00 |
Meghna
Tare Director Office of Sustainability |
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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:
UT Arlington strives to reduce hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste through educating researchers and minimizing the amount of chemical reagent that are purchased by departments. There is also a project ongoing to design a Chemical Inventory for all the chemicals used on campus (using a software application)
A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
UT Arlington manages the hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste through the UT System approved hazardous waste contractor, in compliance with all local, state and federal regulations. This program is managed by the Department of Health and Safety.
A brief description of any significant hazardous material release incidents during the previous three years, including volume, impact and response/remediation:
None
A brief description of any inventory system employed by the institution to facilitate the reuse or redistribution of laboratory chemicals:
UT Arlington is in the process of implementing a chemical inventory system using the Chemical Environmental Management System (CEMS). CEMS will be used to record the quantity, type, location of chemicals stored in laboratories and offer surplus chemicals or chemical reuse inventory to researchers at UT Arlington.
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:
UTA offers an Electronic Waste Recycling Program to the campus community.
We have more than 40 departments that participate in this program.
There are 13 bin placed across the campus at high volume area and smaller bins provided to the departments to collect the waste which they then dump in the bid bins. Our E waste recycling coordinator picks them up every few weeks or special pick as and when needed.
We recycle
Computer Equipment (Monitors, CRT’s, PC’s laptops, etc.)
Test equipment
Cell phones (batteries removed)
Pagers (batteries removed)
Palm pilots (PDA’d) (batteries removed)
Digital cameras (batteries removed)
Radios (batteries removed)
Telecommunications equipment
Sound and lighting equipment, including amplifiers, speakers, dimmers, control boards and interfaces and standard cabling related to
Consumer home electronics (Stereo’s DVDNHS players, tuners, TV’s, etc.}
Miscellaneous electronic equipment
Alkaline batteries, lead acid batteries, NiM batteries and lithium batteries
Printer I toner cartridges
All electronic peripherals- Printers, Hard Drives (personal, not UT Arlington property), Floppy’s CD Rom’s DVD Drives, Printed Circuit Boards, Power Supplies, Zip Drivers, Jazz Drives, Smart cards, cable, wiring, IC’s – Integrated Circuits, Memory, Resistors, Capacitors
Map of E-Waste containers across campus
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=32.73068091351135%2C-97.11448918281714&z=16&mid=1INsjUu1YBmV4jTscNj4O0vlzUdVidJ9T
We have more than 40 departments that participate in this program.
There are 13 bin placed across the campus at high volume area and smaller bins provided to the departments to collect the waste which they then dump in the bid bins. Our E waste recycling coordinator picks them up every few weeks or special pick as and when needed.
We recycle
Computer Equipment (Monitors, CRT’s, PC’s laptops, etc.)
Test equipment
Cell phones (batteries removed)
Pagers (batteries removed)
Palm pilots (PDA’d) (batteries removed)
Digital cameras (batteries removed)
Radios (batteries removed)
Telecommunications equipment
Sound and lighting equipment, including amplifiers, speakers, dimmers, control boards and interfaces and standard cabling related to
Consumer home electronics (Stereo’s DVDNHS players, tuners, TV’s, etc.}
Miscellaneous electronic equipment
Alkaline batteries, lead acid batteries, NiM batteries and lithium batteries
Printer I toner cartridges
All electronic peripherals- Printers, Hard Drives (personal, not UT Arlington property), Floppy’s CD Rom’s DVD Drives, Printed Circuit Boards, Power Supplies, Zip Drivers, Jazz Drives, Smart cards, cable, wiring, IC’s – Integrated Circuits, Memory, Resistors, Capacitors
Map of E-Waste containers across campus
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?ll=32.73068091351135%2C-97.11448918281714&z=16&mid=1INsjUu1YBmV4jTscNj4O0vlzUdVidJ9T
Is the institution’s electronic waste recycler certified under the e-Stewards and/or Responsible Recycling (R2) standards?:
Yes
Optional Fields
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