Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.05
Liaison Dedee DeLongpre Johnston
Submission Date Jan. 28, 2011
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.0

Wake Forest University
OP-17: Waste Reduction

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 5.00 Megan Anderson
Manager, Waste Reduction & Recycling
Facilities & Campus Services
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Weight of materials recycled, 2005 baseline year :
573.60 Tons

Weight of materials composted, 2005 baseline year :
409.57 Tons

Weight of materials disposed as garbage, 2005 baseline year :
1,520 Tons

Weight of materials recycled, performance year :
1,077.42 Tons

Weight of materials composted, performance year :
586.25 Tons

Weight of materials disposed as garbage, performance year :
1,371.95 Tons

On-campus residents, 2005:
3,011

Full-time, non-residential/commuter students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
4,100

Part-time, non-residential/commuter students, faculty, and staff members, 2005:
125

On-campus residents, performance year:
3,191

Non-residential/commuter full-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
4,438

Non-residential/commuter part-time students, faculty, and staff members, performance year:
202

The website URL where information about the institution’s waste reduction initiatives is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The manager of waste reduction and recycling is a new position hired in December, 2010. Specific data for each waste stream has been recorded for 2010. Waste and Recycling data was collected for many years before this, but it is not broken down enough to calculate and complete this submission with the desired level of accuracy. Please see the notes below for details on how numbers were reached:

2007 was used as the base year because data for 2005 was not available.
All data has been recorded for the calendar year (January to December) and therefore reported in that way.
Compost data for the baseline year is data for yard waste (as all of our yard waste is re-used/composted in various ways).

We added surplus furniture as a new category to our waste diversion totals for 2010. We have plans to facilitate the growth of this program in the coming years. Surplus Furniture accounted for 27.37 tons of total waste diverted from the landfill for 2010.


The manager of waste reduction and recycling is a new position hired in December, 2010. Specific data for each waste stream has been recorded for 2010. Waste and Recycling data was collected for many years before this, but it is not broken down enough to calculate and complete this submission with the desired level of accuracy. Please see the notes below for details on how numbers were reached:

2007 was used as the base year because data for 2005 was not available.
All data has been recorded for the calendar year (January to December) and therefore reported in that way.
Compost data for the baseline year is data for yard waste (as all of our yard waste is re-used/composted in various ways).

We added surplus furniture as a new category to our waste diversion totals for 2010. We have plans to facilitate the growth of this program in the coming years. Surplus Furniture accounted for 27.37 tons of total waste diverted from the landfill for 2010.

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