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UNB strives to divert its waste from the landfill through recycling. UNB has identified challenges with the current Waste Management Plan that limits our ability to maximize its diversion rate.
To develop a Waste Management Plan, UNB Sustainability audited the waste of selected buildings to gain initial baseline waste data. This data showed that:
An emerging trend at other institutions aiming to increase their diversion rates is to provide centrally located waste bins that allow individuals to sort their trash based on a three stream system: garbage, paper and refundable materials. This approach provides people streaming options when disposing of waste.
UNB has a three-stream waste management system: Garbage, paper and refundable material. Our challenge is only 3% of our bins are the three stream system, the remaining 97% are single stream bins (Residence buildings were excluded from this audit). The lack of availability of three stream bins does not allow our campus community to make sustainable choices when disposing of used materials.
Although UNB does not offer plastic recycling stations at this time, and all plastic must be sorted as waste on campsus, there are other options for dealing with your recyclable plastics.
Composting is not offered by the city of Fredericton, and UNB does not currently have the capacity to process compost, therefore food must be sorted as waste on campus. However, we encourage you to use alternative methods of composting.