Zero Waste UH: Paper Auditing

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Zero Waste UH Paper Auditing

• Tamara Armstrong
• UHM Landscaping, Sustainable Saunders,
  Environmental Studies

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U.S. Paper Behavior

• U.S. per capita consumption of paper is over 748
  lbs- the highest in the world!
• Paper constitutes 34 of our trash.

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Costs of Paper Production

• Paper Mills
• 2nd largest polluting industry
• 5th largest industrial consumer of energy
• Largest consumers of forests

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UHM Paper Recycling
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Mixed Paper Cost/Profit Scenarios
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Untapped Potential

• Paper constitutes 34 of trash
• If UHM pays 160,000 per year in tipping fees,
• then UHM pays 54,400 per year for dumping paper.
• The largest cost avoidance of going from dumping
  to recycling paper was 5,102.84.
• So, only 9 of paper recycling potential is
  tapped.

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Untapped Potential

• Tapping 9 avoids 5,102.84 in tipping fees
• and could generate 7,992.00 in revenue,
• thats 13,094.00 in UHMs
  pocket!
• So, 100 recycling would create potential annual
• 145, 488.89
• In UHMs pocket!

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Problem Lack of Funding Data

• UHMs current waste management system is
  haphazard and inefficient.
• We are in need of a new truck and bins to
  ramp-up our recycling capacity.

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Zero Waste UH Vision

• Recycling centers throughout campus in strategic
  locations with regular pick-up.
• Increase overall recycling rates to our full
  potential.
• Purchase a paper baler and sell our paper
  commodities directly to the international market.
  

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Goal Paper Baler6,000-12,000
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UH in the Business of Recycling

• 145, 488.89 per year in the pocket of UH
• Its good for the environment saves trees, and
  keeping tonnage out of the landfill.
• A positive, high profile program for UH
• Fiscal officers enaged in the campus
  sustainability movement

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Paper Purchase Auditing
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Paper Purchase Auditing

• 1) Link to a Google spreadsheet for update by
  fiscal offices as paper is purchased.
• (Distribution of friendly reminder cards for
  postage on computer monitors and office walls.)
• Or
• 2) Possible creation of a paper subcode for Zero
  Waste UH Coordinator to update monthly.

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THANK YOU!

• Contact
• Tamara Armstrong
• [phone]
• Tamarala_at_hawaii.edu
• HUB-Sustainable Saunders