{"id":180,"date":"2009-07-09T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2009-07-09T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T19:03:00","slug":"reducing-waste","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/focus-areas\/reducing-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing waste is not just a commitment to recycling paper or soda bottles, or just to recycling in general.\u00a0 Reducing waste is a campus-wide dedication to finding innovative ways to use less material in our day-to-day operations, and to re-use those supplies we must consume.\u00a0 Reducing our need for fresh supplies means a lower CO<sub>2<\/sub> footprint for our campus, as well as significant monetary savings.\u00a0 Below are the major projects in the BUMC&#8217;s waste reduction portfolio.<\/p>\n<h3>Recycling<\/h3>\n<p>The BUMC uses a single-stream model of recycling for all standard office\/classroom recyclable waste, allowing our community to recycle easily without taking up an unsupportable amount of valuable campus space.\u00a0 The current recycling program is focused on action at the departmental or classroom level.\u00a0 Read more about the recycling program here.<\/p>\n<p>The BUMC also recycles a wide variety of materials that are not standard office supplies: light bulbs, corrugated cardboard, batteries, cell phones, scrap metal and construction waste.\u00a0 Learn more about our non-traditional recycling policies here.<\/p>\n<h3>BUMC Equipment Swapping<\/h3>\n<p>The Sustainability Committee runs a loosely managed office supply and furniture swapping system through our sustainability forums.\u00a0 For offices and departments that either need office supplies, or need to get rid of office supplies, feel free to post on the forum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/forums\/viewforum.php?f=354\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The Sustainability Committee is looking for interested volunteers to help make this program more user-friendly and accessible.\u00a0 If you are interested in helping out, <a href=\"mailto:bumcsc@bu.edu?subject=BUMC Equipment Swapping\">send us an email.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also highly urge our community members to investigate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecycle.com\">Freecycle<\/a>, an online community-based re-use program that allows members to share, swap, and give away furniture and items they no longer need.<\/p>\n<h3>Overall Waste Reduction<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to the specific projects above, the Sustainability Committee is investigating a number of other techniques to reduce waste on campus, including double-sided printing in libraries and computer labs, getting discounts or deals from local vendors with re-usable coffee or beverage containers, and using paperless records where possible.\u00a0 We are always interested in getting more people involved in finding new waste reduction strategies.\u00a0 If you have an idea and want to help promote it on campus, <a href=\"mailto:bumcsc@bu.edu?subject=Waste Reduction Idea\">send us an email about it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reducing waste is not just a commitment to recycling paper or soda bottles, or just to recycling in general.\u00a0 Reducing waste is a campus-wide dedication to finding innovative ways to use less material in our day-to-day operations, and to re-use those supplies we must consume.\u00a0 Reducing our need for fresh supplies means a lower CO2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":0,"parent":177,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}