Creating Unified Waste Education and Planning ALEX THOMAS AMERICORPS MEMBER SPOKANE COUNTY, SPOKANE CITY, GONZAGA UNIVERSITY, COMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE, EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Spokane County Higher Education Partnership Where it came from Who it’s made up of What it’s accomplished Where it’s headed How you can recreate it
Fall of 2017 Hosting a Solid Waste Higher Education Workshop
Where to Start Knowing the county Not from WA, but familiar Research on best practices Assessment of where everyone was with waste diversion and planning
Results from Best Practices
Results from Best Practices
Results from Best Practices
Determining the Starting Point The biggest thing to solving a problem is quantifying it first Data from bills Pairing Audits Waste Audits Stakeholders for each campus Moving beyond the immediate stakeholders of the project
What’d I Find
What’d I Find Pairings Eastern: 80% Gonzaga: 75% Community Colleges: 20%
What’d I Find Major Stakeholders were almost always interested No one had done a comprehensive look at this fully Though Eastern had done the most Pairings and capture rates needed to fixed A comprehensive strategy and plan was needed Data gathering was going to be harder than initially thought Trust building
What’d we do
RecycleMania
RecycleMania – Diversion Rates Eastern Gonzaga CCS 31% 39% 34% 29%
Zero Waste Game Day
Education Presentations (Emails) Posters Shadow Boxes
Audits
Audits
Audits
Audits
Investment and Infrastructure Investment/Infrastructure CCS investment Inside, Out, Offices ($4,000)
Investment and Infrastructure Investment/Infrastructure CCS investment Inside, Out, Offices ($4,000)
Investment and Infrastructure
Investment and Infrastructure Investment/Infrastructure CCS investment Inside, Out, Offices ($4,000) CCS Consolidation Eastern Pairings GU Pairings and Consolidation
Data Gonzaga – 19 Accounts Eastern – Readily Available CCS – Lead to other developments (Water)
Compost CCS – exploring (Head starts) EWU - meetings
Remote Campuses CCS Far north as Republic, Far south as WSU Repurposing dual stream bins
Partnerships Custodial (CCS – mapping efforts, feedback conduit) Dining (Eastern meetings, GU Audits and Training [LeanPath]) Housing (GU totally invested but no one is looking at it. EWU same but no one has the time. Working on it)
Student Partners CCS – ASG EWU – Classes/Faculty GU - GEO
Where to Go Next Not everything is done Composting at CCS Consolidation at GU New signage and better pairing at EWU Reduction!
Waste Management Plans First time for Each Documenting what we’ve done
Time for Q and A Andrew Lemberg – Resource Conservation Manager Community Colleges of Spokane Erik Budsberg – Sustainability Coordinator Eastern Washington University Lindsay Chapman – Spokane County Kris Major – Spokane City
Thank You
Discussion
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