Our Purpose
The Waste Audit team's duty is to annually audit the content of Western's garbage; figure out what students have been throwing out. Barring any remarkable technological development, this can only done one way: sorting through the garbage by hand. The Waste Audit team's job is a messy one, and one that is generally underappreciated. However, it is an extremely important task, which ultimately benefits every one of EnviroWestern's project teams, and by law someone has to do it. Under regulation 102 of the 1994 Environmental Protections Act, all teaching institutions with 350 or more students must conduct an annual waste audit and produce an audit report.
Being a part of the waste audit team will give you a chance to meet great people, and do a service for campus which, despite being underappreciated, is very important. When it's all said and done, it is a very rewarding experience. The data provided is a great asset to EnviroWestern. You can be sure the Reusability Team will thank you dearly for your statistics on disposable cup usage. Additionally, some findings may ignite interest in an issue EnviroWestern had previously looked over. For instance, the 2005 report identified that many locations on campus have a problem with recycling; the problem being that they didn’t do it. The Stevenson-Lawson building and Richard Ivey building each bolstered their waste output with over 30% worth of recyclable paper.
Project Leaders:
Dan Otamendi and Chris Quick