Waste Initiatives

2011 Initiatives (Current):
• Composting Expansion
• Composting Update
• Water Fountain Retrofits
• Water Fountain Retrofits Update
• Plastic Bag Ban
• 2009 Waste Audit
• IT Collection, Reuse & Recycle
• Recycling Program Alignment
• Plastic Bottle-Free Zone Expansion
• Plastic Bottle-Free Zone Update
 
2010 Initiatives:
• Composting
• Waste Reduction Work Plan
• Sustainable Purchasing
• Big Garbage Pick-Up and Community Clean-Up
• Water Fountain Retrofits
• Plastic-Bottle-Free Zones
 
2009 Initiatives:
• Waste Diversion Strategy
• Composting
• Sustainable Procurement
• Water Fountain Retrofits
• Campus Bag Policy
• I.T. Collection, Reuse and Recycle
 
Pre-2009 Initiatives:
• Battery Recycling

2011 (Current):

Composting Update (back to top)

Working with McMaster's Waste Services Provider, BFI, and Compost Service Providers, Planet Earth and Walker Environmental Group, McMaster has successfully expanded its composting program beyond Mary E. Keyes to include all of the following areas:

• Mary E. Keyes
• Bridges Café
• Twelve Eighty
• Union Market
• La Piazza

Composting expansion start date: April 4, 2011

Water Fountain Retrofits Update (back to top)

Plastic Bag Ban (back to top)

McMaster University is the second University in North America to formally ban the sale and distribution of single-use plastic bags campus-wide! Find out more.

2009 Waste Audit (back to top)

Click on the highlighted link to see McMaster's 2009 Waste Audit. Congratulations McMaster for achieving a diversion rate of 63%!

Plastic Bottle-Free Zone Update (back to top)

On February 28th, 2011, the MSU Staff pledged to make the MSU Main Office a plastic bottle free zone. Learn more about this initiative and how you can get involved by going to: http://plasticbottlefree.com/

Within one month of the installing a retrofitted fountain in the MSU Main Office, which took place on February 14th 2011, 749 single use bottles have been saved as a result of refilling!

Archived Initiatives (pre 2009)

Battery Recycling (back to top)

McMaster has policy regarding the proper disposal of batteries on campus. Check out the Battery Recycling and Disposal Program document to learn more about the policy and about where you can drop off your batteries.

 

March 2, 2012