{"id":4988,"date":"2017-03-27T12:54:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T12:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:17:29","slug":"waste-audit-highlights-improvements-but-that-more-work-must-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2017\/03\/27\/waste-audit-highlights-improvements-but-that-more-work-must-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste Audit highlights improvements but that more work must be done"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Student Centre was transformed earlier in the month to make way for the annual BU Waste Audit.<\/p>\n

The Audit was run by an enthusiastic group of student and staff volunteers\u00a0who were willing to\u00a0pick through the\u00a022 bags of General waste and\u00a0Mixed Recycling\u00a0which had been collected in the morning from\u00a0around the\u00a0Talbot and Lansdowne Campuses. While not the most glamorous of jobs the group weren’t afraid to get their hands dirty and made good progress, quickly identifying that food waste and liquid which contaminated\u00a0otherwise recoverable materials were the main offenders.<\/p>\n

Having collected two bags of general waste from each compound on the two sites\u00a0and mixed recycling bags from each of the compounds on Talbot the audit aimed to identify how the bins are currently being used, whether people are separating their waste and what could be done to improve recycling rates across the university.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Food waste in the General Waste was down slightly \u2013 23% to 18% between 2016 & 2017 audits.\u00a0From this figure though,\u00a0four bags were responsible for 58% of food waste in total- highlighting the under provision of Food Waste Recycling facilities in some sites such as Studland House. The roll out of twin bins which incorporate food waste in caf\u00e9 areas\u00a0will help improve this figure.<\/p>\n

Contamination and getting people to separate there waste before disposal remain a big issue.\u00a0The results of the audit identified that up to\u00a0half of the general waste could have been recycled if it wasn’t contaminated. It also highlighted high levels of contamination in the mixed recycling, with lots of half full coffee cups which hadn’t been\u00a0poured away\u00a0spoiling the ‘dry’ mixed recycling. A rethink of the waste labeling across campus\u00a0to tackle this challenge and make labeling of bins clearer is now underway\u00a0– any thoughts are welcomed at sustainability@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

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The highlight of the afternoon however was the discovery of a general waste bag full of\u00a0\u00a0Soft toys. The bag which had originated from the EBC was full of a selection of children’s toys. The toys, which would have been sent for energy recovery, were taken to a local dog home for reuse. If you ever have any questions about whether you should be Reducing, Reusing or Recycling something, please feel free to ask us at:\u00a0sustainability@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Student Centre was transformed earlier in the month to make way for the annual BU Waste Audit. The Audit was run by an enthusiastic group of student and staff volunteers\u00a0who were willing to\u00a0pick through the\u00a022 bags of General waste and\u00a0Mixed Recycling\u00a0which had been collected in the morning from\u00a0around the\u00a0Talbot and Lansdowne Campuses. While not the… Read more » about Waste Audit highlights improvements but that more work must be done<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1894,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[502,503,90,108,501,504],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","tag-audit","tag-scitech","tag-subu","tag-sustainability","tag-waste","tag-waste-audit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}