Environmental Management Improvement Programme 2015-2016 2015-16 | Seite 6
Energy and Emissions
Waste
Objective
Objective
To reduce Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, resource use and costs
associated with waste production and disposal.
Targets
• Increase the proportion of non-hazardous general waste recycled by
2% annually up to 2020
Targets
• Maintain accreditation to ISO 50001 Energy Management System
• Achieve <1% waste to landfill (excluding construction +
refurbishment)
Action
• Continue with the implementation of a Carbon management Plan
• Reduce the total annual amount of non-hazardous general waste per
capita by 1% per year
Action
To reduce Scope 1 and 2 Greenhouse Gas emissions from the Main
Campus by 34% by 2020 from a 2008/09 baseline.
• Implement our Waste and Recycling Strategy 2015-2020
• Improve glass recycling in Halls of Residence
• Run the NUS “Student Switch Off” campaign in the Halls of
Residence
• Utilise half hourly electricity metering data to target ‘out of hours’
consumption
Target achievement date
September 2015
• Introduce recycling competition between Halls of Residence
• Improve process for collection of redundant furniture
Target achievement date
September 2015
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