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recruited to assist in the development of the project and to initiate and carry out an ongoing awareness programme. The Soft Services team was also expanded to include a number of newly appointed Housekeepers to enhance standards around the College and to be actively involved in waste and recycling issues. Furthermore, the duties of the pre- existing FM Support Team were changed to facilitate the increasing number of recycling operations.
THE WASTE CHALLENGE
With around 90 different buildings across the campuses, including at four high profile London Hospitals, the task of introducing cost efficient, practical disposal solutions is rendered especially difficult. Around 50 different types of waste are generated and the team’s primary objective has been to streamline the collection and disposal of these across all the campuses. These stretch across London and beyond so that the programmes have to be co-ordinated with not one but several Local Authorities each of whom may work with different contractors and operate their own distinct set of initiatives, to their own schedule of goals and priorities. For example, the waste strategy at the main campus on Exhibition Road was first discussed and agreed with Westminster Council prior to its implementation.
RECYCLING OBJECTIVE I 28|
mperial College is renowned globally for the quality of its teaching with over 13,000 full time and 1,000 part time students enrolled at any one time and over 6,000 staff including academic, research and support personnel. Maintaining the highest academic standards puts pressure on every services and support facility, whether it be catering, human resources, health & safety or facilities management to achieve the utmost level of professionalism and to deliver the very best available. In a climate of reducing funds, fulfilling this challenge is becoming increasingly difficult. The College recognised that its approach to dealing with waste should reflect its position as a prestigious Sciences
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University. In taking recycling very seriously its priorities involved compliance with waste pre-treatment legislation, a reduction in the amount of waste disposed of to landfill and the minimisation of its impact on the environment.
WASTE STRATEGY Following an extensive review in 2007, as a result of which a new Waste and Recycling Strategy was developed, the newly restructured Soft Services team at Imperial College embarked on an ambitious 3 year recycling development plan whose priorities were based on what was feasible, achievable, preferable and sustainable.
An experienced recycling officer was
The College has set itself a target to increase recycling rates from 19% in 2007/08 to 40% by the end of the 2010/11 academic year.
In addition, it is the first Higher Education establishment in the UK to sign up to the Waste & Resources Action Plan and has committed to halving the amount of construction waste it sends to landfill by 2012.
WASTE STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION It was considered paramount that for the recycling programme to be successful it needed:- • To be user friendly and simple to understand
• To obtain buy-in and support from all parties
• To commence with domestic
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