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A spate of workplace injuries, along with too much landfill, prompted Berkeley staff and students to go back to the drawing board. Their unique trash and recycling receptacles are now making their debut on campus, along with a one-of-a-kind electric trash-collection vehicle.
Tag: zero waste
UC boosts emphasis on composting organic waste
May 23, 2012:
Recycling has allowed UC to divert more than 50 percent of its waste from landfills. But to reach its goal of “zero waste” by 2020, it needs to start composting. Hence the green bins, for organic waste, becoming commonplace at Berkeley and other UC campuses. Dining facilities, residence halls and sports stadiums are some of the first composting sites.
‘RecycleMania’ a spirited, diverting race to zero waste
March 27, 2012:
Sustainability-minded Berkeley students are wrapping up an intensive two-month recycling and waste-reduction blitz, spurred by the campus’s first-time participation in a coast-to-coast contest, RecycleMania.
Trash costs, sustainability pays, says campus recycling ‘King’
February 27, 2012:
The manager of Campus Recycling and Refuse Services, Lin King, is working with campus groups, including Cal Athletics, to meet aggressive UC waste-diversion goals. To reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, he says, is not only the best thing for planet Earth, but good for the bottom line as well.
