Waste Production Pres

							By: Samantha Adrian, Lindsey Mizak,
                 and Jessica Pieper
 Sustainability
 Waste   Production
 Baseline Measure Results
 Indicators
 Initiative Recommendation
 Policy Recommendations
   Changing actions today will affect future generations
    positively

   Human actions need to change in order to preserve the
    planet

   Environmental resources are becoming limited, thus
    environmental management is important

   Viterbo can make improvements environmentally, socially,
    and economically

   All dimensions of the campus can be addressed on campus
    including curriculum, facilities, operations, and community
   To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut
    down and in return one Sunday newspaper can be recycled 7 times


   Current behaviors illustrate waste production is increasing; therefore it is
    important to adapt waste management into everyday practices


   By adapting new waste management policies, Viterbo will be able to limit
    the amount of trash produced and increase recycling


   The components addressed were: trash, recycling, and commingled
 Hilltopper   Refuse & Recycling Service, Inc.

 Excel   Spreadsheet

 Analyzedacademic school and
 winter/summer months

 Annualtotals, building totals, and
 percentages
Total Academic   Total in
Year             Pounds
Trash                    256640
Recycled                  50080
Commingled                30144
                                                                                    McDonald Terrace

                                                                                    Union and Cafeteria

                                                                                    Reinhart Center

                                    256,640
300,000                                                                             Fine Arts Center
                                                                   0%
                                                              5%                    Murphy Center
                                                         5%
250,000                                             5%                  22%
                                               5%                                   Mathy Center

200,000                                       8%                                    Catnitcle House
                                                                              12%   (Morley Apt)
                                               8%                                   Treacy House
150,000
                   72,180                           8%                  11%         Benaventure Hall
                                                              11%
100,000
                                                                                    Rose Terrace


 50,000                                                                             Physical Plant

                                                                                    House
     0
          Trash/Summer &    Trash/Academic                                          Student
          Winter Estimate        Year                                               Development Center
                                                        Reinhart Center



                                                        Fine Arts Center
60,000
                  50,080

                                                        Murphy Center
50,000                                     0%

                                 9%                     Union and Cafeteria
                                      1%
40,000                                            39%
                           15%                          McDonald Terrace


30,000                                                  Student
                             15%
                                                        Development
                                            17%         Center
         14,085                                         Treacy House
20,000


                                                        Mathy Center

10,000

                                                        Physical Plant


    0
                                                                    McDonald Terrace



                                                                    Union and Cafeteria



                                                                    Rose Terrace


                 30,144                                             House
35,000


30,000                                                              Murphy Center
                                          6% 3%
                                    6%                  21%
25,000                     6%                                       Fine Arts Center

                          6%
20,000
                                                                    Treacy House
                          6%                                  17%

15,000   8,478                 6%
                                                                    Benaventure Hall
                                     6%
                                           6%     11%
10,000
                                                                    Mathy Center

 5,000
                                                                    Reinhart Center

    0
                                                                    Physical Plant
   -Develop a Materials Exchange Program by 2012 to allow
    students to exchange items that may still be used, rather
    than contributing to landfill waste.

   -Increase residence hall recycling by 50% by placing clearly
    marked recycle bins and donation bins on every residence
    hall floor by 2011

   -Reduce the amount of waste Viterbo University
    contributes to landfills by 50% by the year 2020.

   -Implement electronic waste program on campus by 2012.
   Waste reduction

   Waste diversion

   Electronic waste recycling program

   Addition to the goals delineated above, further
    goals include: construction and demolition waste
    diversion, hazardous waste management,
    materials exchange, limiting printing, materials
    online, chemical reuse inventory, and move-in
    and move-out waste reduction
   The Student Activities Board used toilet paper and paper towel rolls
    in a creative way to decorate for Homecoming

   Free Radicals participate in highway clean-ups each semester and
    educate children at the Boys and Girls Club about recycling

   Student Government Association holds a clothing drive around
    campus each semester, to help eliminate the waste of unwanted
    clothing

   Students in Free Enterprise have held a food weigh-in to demonstrate
    just how much food is wasted by students on campus

   The Registrar, Business, and Financial Offices use an electronic data
    process and have eliminated paper schedules, registration, and loan
    notification documents

   Monthly paper billing and mailed award letters will soon be online as
    well
   Recycling tournaments between residence halls would get
    students excited about recycling and increase the amount
    of materials recycled overall
   A development of a Take-it-or-leave it program to reduce
    waste and allows students to donate unwanted items for
    others to use is recommended
   contact a surplus store to collect university owned
    property for redistribution or public resale
   a program could be implemented to compost the unused
    food and use it in place of chemical fertilizer on campus
   choose to include links on the University Website with an
    educational purpose
   bringing sustainability into the curriculum
 An  Environmental Responsibility Committee
  is currently in place to address moving the
  University in a more sustainable direction
 By creating policies concerning recycling,
  reduction of waste, paper reduction, and
  sustainability education, the University can
  take steps to achieving the goals
 The  Reinhart Center is the leading facility on
  campus in recycling
 McDonald Terrace leads in trash disposal
 It is extremely important to start recycling
  in Student Housing because there is a lack of
  recycling based upon data analysis
 An increase in education can help students
  recycle.
 The recommended initiatives and policies
  can help decrease waste disposal and
  increase recycling efforts.