Business Honors Recycling Project

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Business Honors Recycling Project

• Sheela Bhongir
• Elizabeth Clark
• Buddika Palihawadana

Faculty Advisor Professor Kurland
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Our Story

• Professor Kurland Professor Hussein
• Mentorship credits
• Interested in the environment
• Make a difference

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Our Purpose

• How can we increase the effectiveness and
  efficiency of A.S. Recycling?

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Our Research

• Meetings with
• Cyndi Signett, A.S. Recycling Coordinator
• Adrian De La Rosa, former A.S. Recycling Field
  Supervisor
• Darryl Johnson, PPM Director

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Overview

• CSUNs current waste reduction efforts
• Our visions
• Our ideas and suggestions
• Challenges unanswered questions
• Future directions

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A.S. Recycling

• Started in 1991 with Cyndi Signett
• Mission Statement to implement a comprehensive
  program to inform, educate, and encourage the
  campus community to recycle
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vnfePAG-29YE

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A.S. Organization
Miguel Segura
David Crandall
Childrens Center
S.P.A.C.E
Recreation Sports
Recycling Services
Ticketing Services
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What A.S. Currently Recycles

• Campus Bottles Cans
• Cell Phone Inkjet
• Paper
• Laser Toner
• Cardboard
• Pallets

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Recycling Process
Valley Recycling Center Golden State Fibers
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• Recycling Locations
• Paper
• OCC
• Campus UBC
• Housing UBC
• Pallets
• Cell Phones Inkjets

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CSUN has Made a Difference!

• From 2004 2006, CSUN has saved
• Beverage containers170.6 Trash Bins
• Cardboard..2,885.3 Trash Bins
• 3,055.9 Trash Bins

Dumpster volume 3 cubic yards
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Current Awareness

• America Recycles Day
• Earth Day
• Other events
• Website

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Outline

• The Real Picture
• Justification
• Our Visions
• Ideas
• Challenges Unanswered Questions

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Current Waste Stream
Note Total Tonnage Diverted includes recycling
collections, composting of wood and lawn
clippings and demolition materials
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The Real Picture
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Justification

• Legal
• AB 939 requires a 50 diversion rate
• Economical
• Increase A.S. Recycling revenue
• Saving energy natural resources

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Justification

• Ethical
• Respect for the natural environment
• How much of our waste can our earth handle?
• Our landfill spaces are filling up
• Our trash does not get sorted

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Justification

• Cultural
• Society is now becoming environmentally conscious
  
• An easy way to get involved
• The trend starts at CSUN

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Our Visions

• Long Term
• Towards zero waste
• Zero waste means a 100 diversion rate
• Recycling composting bins next to every trash
  can
• Manufacturing packaging reforms
• Short Term
• 50 diversion rate that does not include
  construction

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Our Ideas

• Raise Awareness
• Incentives
• Student Involvement
• Composting
• Efficient Recycling System

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Getting Involved
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Raise Awareness

• Events
• -Room rental recycling requirement
• -Recycle at major events
• Recycling Bins
• -Increase visibility
• -Add bins
• In classrooms
• Inside buildings
• Outdoor

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Awareness Contd.

• Update A.S. website
• -10 steps to reduce your carbon footprint
• Departmental websites/ desktops
• Recycling tours
• Recycling film
• A.S. Recycling facebook

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Student Involvement
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Club Competitions

• Mini-Recycle Mania within CSUN
• Student clubs and orgs. collect recycle material

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Why would clubs participate?

• Yearly Recognition Award
• Individuals receive pins
• Semester Recognitions
• Monetary awards
• Free advertising-website/ Daily Sundial
• Pizza party

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Individual Involvement

• Bin design competition
• Recycled art competition
• Educational programs
• Recycle bank

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Composting

• Composting would increase diversion rate
• Current eggs shells, coffee grinding
• Goals To see composting bins on campus
• Ernest Young Your World Your Vision student
  competition

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Efficiency

• Efficiency is defined as increasing the speed
• at which the current recyclable waste stream
• gets recycled.
• Decrease Sort Time
• Decrease Pick Up Time

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Decrease sort time

• Current Sorting Area
• Weather
• Canopy
• Sink
• AC and heater

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Decrease Pick up Time

• Increase the variety and volume of products
  picked up
• Recycling Train

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Golf Cart Train
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Decrease Pick up Time

• Switching bins

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Decrease Pick up Time

• Adding wheels to cardboard bins

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Decrease Pick up COST

• Cardboard baler
• Loose - 50 100 lbs/cy
• Baled - 600 1100 lbs / cy

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Our Current Cardboard Bin
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Math
Costs 140 per pick up x 1 pick up per week x 52
weeks 7,280 per year 61 ratio Costs 140 per
pick up x 9 pick ups per year 1,260 Savings
per year 6,020 Baler cost 15,000 It would
take 2.5 years to pay off the cost for the baler.
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Challenges Unanswered Questions

• Different Measurements
• Communication
• Dumpster Divers
• Tonnage Disposed

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Interconnectedness
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Dumpster Divers

• Going into classrooms
• Territorial
• Illegal
• Student motivation

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Tonnage Disposed

• What does our trash consist of?
• This is a challenge because it would be hard to
  make an estimate of how much earnings and
  savings could be captured through recycling and
  composting.

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Future Directions

• Goals for next semester year
• Composting at Earth Fair, April 22, 2009
• Mini-recycle mania competitions between student
  clubs and organizations
• Advertising
• Getting students involved

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Next 2-5 Years

• A.S. recycling expansion
• Apply for grants getting sponsors
• Composting implemented on a campus wide scale
• Indoor recycling bins
• Reach a diversion rate of 50
• Partnerships of University Corporation, PPM, and
  A.S. Recycling towards common goal of zero waste
• Talk in common metrics

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Future

• Continue towards zero waste at CSUN
• Win Recyclemania

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Conclusion

• A.S. Recycling is doing a terrific job.
• More can be done.
• Its important we work together to accomplish
  these goals.
• We have provided a few ideas, and plan to
  continue the project on into Spring 2009.

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Thank You

• Professor Kurland, Hussein, Vasishth
• Betsy Corrigan
• Darryl Johnson
• A.S. Student Employees
• Adrian De La Rosa
• Cyndi Signett