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General
Resources [top]
These
are sites that provide an introduction to campus sustainability
issues, including case studies or examples, a discussion of
how the site sponsors are involved in promoting campus sustainability
and references to other information resources on this subject.
These sites may have some information on campus-based recycling
or waste reduction programs.
National
Wildlife Federation -
Campus Ecology Program (CEP)
WHAT'S HOT: Practical resources
for green campuses and student environmental leaders
The
CEP was started in 1989 for the purpose of helping higher
education institutions to operate on a more environmentally
sustainable basis and, in the process, to train students to
become environmental leaders within their communities. The
CEP web site describes the various programs that students
can participate in by joining the CEP. There are, in addition,
a number of online resources including short profiles of greening
projects involving composting, recycling or waste reduction;
the CEP newsletter and the Campus Ecology Research Station,
which is a how-to guide to developing a successful campus
green project.
Second
Nature
WHAT'S HOT: The searchable Resource
Center has it all.
The
overall goal of Second Nature is to enable colleges and universities
to teach and practice environmental sustainability. The core
informational asset of the Second Nature website is the Resource
Center where users can identify specific contacts, bibliographies,
teaching materials, institutional profiles or documents based
on the selection of search filters such as subject topics.
The Bibliographic section does have a topic listing that addresses
waste management. In all other sections of the Resource Center,
listings that relate to recycling or waste reduction can be
found principally through browsing. The balance of the Second
Nature website is devoted to a discussion of the organization
and its various programs such as workshops.
Sustainable
Development
on Campus Toolkit
WHAT'S HOT: Find real world policies
The
objective of this website by the International Institute of
Sustainable Development (a Canadian organization) is to help
students or staff to understand what sustainable development
is and how it relates to higher education institutions. Users
looking for specific references to recycling and waste reduction
should consult the casebook section of the Learn Here section
as well as the Policy Bank. The latter allows content filtering
with respect to a various criteria such as type of policy,
country and institution. The Declarations section is interesting
to those users who may want to review the various policy statements
that have issued by higher education leaders such as the Talloires
Declaration.
Recycling
Emphasis [top]
These
sites offer discussion of campus recycling and waste reduction
as one strategy of a larger plan for creating a sustainable
campus. In many cases, the campus recycling programs provided
the foundation for the broader campus sustainability program
that sought to address other issues such as energy conservation
and green building design.
Blueprint
for a Green Campus (BGC)
WHAT'S HOT: Recommendations are
a few years old but still solid.
BGC is a document that is based on the results of the Earth
Summit Campus that was held February 1994 at Yale University
involving 450 delegates from all 50 States as well as 22 countries.
It sets forth a number of recommendations to be followed for
creating a green campus environment. Chapter 6 of the BGC
recommendations addresses waste reduction actions that can
be taken by campus officials, staff, faculty and students.
Brown
Is Green (BIG)
WHAT'S HOT: Driving sustainability
through waste reduction and accessible recycling
The BIG
program was established in 1990 as cooperative effort by campus
administration, faculty and students to reduce the environmental
impact of the university's ongoing operations. One section
of the BIG website is devoted to a description of Brown University's
recycling program including recovery data for specific materials
including food and yard wastes. One interesting part of this
section is a discussion of the process that was followed for
developing outdoor campus recycling collection containers.
University
of Waterloo - Waste Management
WHAT'S HOT: Universities buying
green, eh!
This website
is really a central hub for information on the various environmental
initiatives being undertaken by the University of Waterloo
(Ontario, Canada) though there is a strong focus on recycling
and waste reduction practices or research that have been undertaken.
The best starting point is the link to the Reduction and Recycling
section. Here users will find a detailed overview of the university's
recycling and waste reduction practices including its history
and program statistics. Another useful link is to the site's
discussion of the university's green procurement practices
along to links to other procurement resources. Finally, follow
the Solid Waste Management link to a listing of online student
reports, many of them reporting the results of waste audits,
going back to 1991.
Connecticut
College is Green (CCG)
The
CCG website describes the various environmental actions that
are being taken by Connecticut College. This includes a detailed
overview of the campus recycling program, which recovers a
variety of fiber and non-fiber materials including food and
wood wastes. One of the annual educational activities conducted
by the campus recycling program since 1994 is a sort of selected
waste sources to identify recyclable materials that are still
being disposed.
MPIRG
- The Green Campus
This
website describes the green campus campaign that is sponsored
by the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group and invites
interested students to join this program. There is also a
link to information on how to join MPIRG's green campus discussion
list.
UB
Green
UB
Green website is the starting point for information on various
ongoing environmental programs at the State University of
NY at Buffalo. This includes a section on the campus recycling
program that covers its history, current operations, university
policies and procurement actions. It should be noted that
computer disks and CD's are recovered through this program.
There are also some student reports relating to campus recycling
issues that are worth reviewing as well.
University
of British Columbia Campus Sustainability Office (UBC-CSO)
The
goal of the UBC - CSO is to demonstrate how sustainable community
institutions can be successfully implemented. There is a wealth
of information on various ongoing recycling and waste reduction
programs at UBC. Select the link to WasteFree UBC to go the
university's recycling program website. Here users can download
detailed annual program reports for the past several years
as well as read about UBC's composting initiatives to encourage
small scale (vermicomposting) and intermediate scale (back
yard) composting and to develop a large scale composting facility.
Another notable feature of this website are the real time
meters showing sheets of copy paper used and trees saved by
using recycled content paper since January 1, 2000 on the
CSO home page and on the page discussing the university's
paper reduction program. The latter page also describes the
various strategies being used to reduce paper product usage
and to recycle those paper products that still need to be
used within university operations.
University
of Wisconsin - Madison Campus Ecology (UWMCE)
WHAT'S HOT: Measuring campus
environmental success
The purpose of this website is to provide information
on all campus ecology initiatives by the UWM including its
long-standing recycling program. The UWMCE's recycling program
profile, one of the most extensive and well-organized of its
kind to be found on the Web, is based on a campus ecology
benchmarking methodology proposed in a article entitled "Comparing
Campus Recycling Programs: Apples to Apples or Whales to Lawnmowers?"
by Daniel Einstein (which is also part of the UWMCE site and
well worth reading). This profile covers the program's institutional
environment, operations, administration and organizational
behavior (such as education and promotional activities). There
are also detailed online program statistics on the quantities
recovered and revenues earned for fiber and non-fiber materials.
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