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Creating Unified Waste Education and Planning

ALEX THOMAS AMERICORPS MEMBER SPOKANE COUNTY, SPOKANE CITY, GONZAGA UNIVERSITY, COMMUNITY COLLEGES OF SPOKANE, EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Spokane County Higher Education Partnership

 Where it came from  Who it’s made up of  What it’s accomplished  Where it’s headed  How you can recreate it

Fall of 2017

 Hosting a Solid Waste Higher Education Workshop

Where to Start

 Knowing the county

 Not from WA, but familiar

 Research on best practices  Assessment of where everyone was with waste diversion and planning

Results from Best Practices

Results from Best Practices

Results from Best Practices

Determining the Starting Point

 The biggest thing to solving a problem is quantifying it first

 Data from bills  Pairing Audits  Waste Audits

 Stakeholders for each campus

 Moving beyond the immediate stakeholders of the project

What’d I Find

What’d I Find

Pairings

 Eastern: 80%  Gonzaga: 75%  Community Colleges: 20%

What’d I Find

 Major Stakeholders were almost always interested  No one had done a comprehensive look at this fully

 Though Eastern had done the most

 Pairings and capture rates needed to fixed  A comprehensive strategy and plan was needed  Data gathering was going to be harder than initially thought

 Trust building

What’d we do

RecycleMania

RecycleMania – Diversion Rates

Eastern

39%

Gonzaga

34%

CCS

31% 29%

Zero Waste Game Day

Education

 Presentations (Emails)  Posters  Shadow Boxes

Audits

Audits

Audits

Audits

Investment and Infrastructure

 Investment/Infrastructure

 CCS investment

 Inside, Out, Offices ($4,000)

Investment and Infrastructure

 Investment/Infrastructure

 CCS investment

 Inside, Out, Offices ($4,000)

Investment and Infrastructure

Investment and Infrastructure

 Investment/Infrastructure

 CCS investment

 Inside, Out, Offices ($4,000)

 CCS Consolidation  Eastern Pairings  GU Pairings and Consolidation

Data

 Gonzaga – 19 Accounts  Eastern – Readily Available  CCS – Lead to other developments (Water)

Compost

 CCS – exploring (Head starts)  EWU - meetings

Remote Campuses

 CCS

 Far north as Republic, Far south as WSU  Repurposing dual stream bins

Partnerships

 Custodial (CCS – mapping efforts, feedback conduit)  Dining (Eastern meetings, GU Audits and Training [LeanPath])  Housing (GU totally invested but no one is looking at it. EWU same but no

• ne has the time. Working on it)

Student Partners

 CCS – ASG  EWU – Classes/Faculty  GU - GEO

Where to Go Next

 Not everything is done

 Composting at CCS  Consolidation at GU  New signage and better pairing at EWU  Reduction!

Waste Management Plans

 First time for Each  Documenting what we’ve done

Time for Q and A

 Andrew Lemberg –

Resource Conservation Manager Community Colleges of Spokane

 Erik Budsberg –

Sustainability Coordinator Eastern Washington University

 Lindsay Chapman –

Spokane County

 Kris Major –

Spokane City

Thank You

Discussion