浪费
Minimizing the amount of potential waste that we are generating as a campus community and sending it to the landfill is a huge challenge and an integral part of UNH’s sustainability efforts. It’s important not only from an environmental perspective, 而且从公共卫生的角度来看, 公正公平，健全财务管理. While departments and champions across campus have been working for decades to bring UNH closer to being a “Zero 浪费” place, 我们知道我们还有很多事情要做. That’s why the development of a Zero 浪费 Plan for the whole campus is one of the initiatives in the “Building Financial 强度” strategic priority for the 联合国大学的未来!
The best way to tackle waste is not to create it in the first place. That’s why departments and organizations across campus are focusing on finding ways to reduce waste. 学习 about more of the ways they're doing this below, and how you can be part of the solution!
由学生发起, UNH垃圾2宝藏 is a signature program helping to keep waste out of the landfill.
星评价
浪费(3.9/10)
UNH获得39%的积分(3分).9/10)，而AASHE成员的平均得分为54.12%.
星星 “seeks to recognize institutions that are moving toward zero waste by reducing, 重用, 回收, 和堆肥.”
垃圾2宝藏
T2T 学生领导项目是这样的吗 collects massive amounts of 家具 and dorm items from students at the end of each school year and recycles or resells them at discounted prices at a huge campus yard sale the following fall. 自成立以来, T2T has saved students over half a million dollars in back-to-school expenses and diverted nearly 200 tons of waste from entering landfills.
食物再利用项目
联合国儿童基金会正在与 收集, a local community organization dedicated to ending hunger, in 一个很酷的新伙伴关系 to repurpose rescued wholesome excess food produced at UNH dining halls. his collaboration takes extra food from UNH dining halls, 收集, local farmers and other food that would otherwise go to waste, and repurposes it into nutritious meals that are available to those in the community in need of food.
捐款 & 盈余
UNH donates tons of used mattresses and other 家具 to charitable organizations like IRN盈余-再利用网络 每年. It also has surplus policies that require that used 仍然良好的项目(1).e. 家具, 车辆, 电子产品, etc) need to be offered to community members before they are otherwise disposed of.
通过循环再造和堆肥“分流”废物
UNH has a long history of 回收 和堆肥. We recycle bulk cardboard from move-in and move-out, scrap metal, and waste grease from our kitchens. In 2013 the university shifted to a “single-stream” system, and efforts to standardize bins and signage to educate the campus community about have been ongoing.
香港大学的回收工作
塑料# 1, #2和#5, 玻璃, 铝罐和锡罐, cardboard and paper are the ONLY items that should go in UNH recycle bins across campus.
联合国大学的堆肥
UNH's longstanding compost program takes campus food waste to 金曼农场 to be composted. 我们还和 Agricycle to turn food waste from campus restaurants and the WildCat Stadium into renewable energy.
消除污染
UNH departments educate the community to keep plastic bags, food, liquids and non-recyclables OUT of 回收 bins and dumpsters; and to put only food waste, 纸产品, or 餐厅's compostable service ware into compost bins.
零废物大球场 & 事件
联合国儿童基金会努力确保所有服务都在 未经批准的体育场 can be composted or recycled and has made University Day and other campus-wide events zero waste as well.
更多有关联合国大学堆肥的资料
During the academic year, UNH dining halls serve almost 70,000 meals per week. UNH takes pride in providing contemporary food service by offering diners a wide selection of choices and flavors. Food disposed of at the end of a meal (post-consumer waste) coupled with organic waste generated in the preparation of meals (pre-consumer) leads to a tremendous amount of food waste.
以可持续的方式处理这个问题, this waste and other organic materials are gathered from sites on and near the campus.
- 餐厅 staff load buckets of waste onto their compost truck and take them out to 金曼农场 到窗边(long compost piles composed of manure, sawdust, plant materials and organic waste collected at UNH).
- Windrows that are lighter and coarser are newer and have not yet broken down into dark, 易碎和更均匀的堆肥.
- A tractor is used to dig a hole in the windrow into which the waste is poured and then covered.
- 一旦废物倒出来并盖上, the waste buckets are washed and returned to their original sites.
- The food waste breaks down into nutrient-rich compost, and is applied to fields at 金曼农场.
- 所有UNH食堂的食物垃圾(斯蒂尔斯), Philbrook, Holloway), as well as the UNH Memorial Union Building (MUB) and some residence halls/apartments, 被带到金曼农场.
- Approximately 25,000 to 40,000 pounds of food waste are collected per month during the academic year. 每年有超过20万磅堆肥.
- Since summer 2006, 是不是吃饭 staff have been collecting food waste and bringing it to 金曼农场. Prior to that, 可持续发展研究所 compost interns collected the food waste. Five interns were hired during the academic year, and two were hired during the summer.
