I have the high honor. Of introducing. The queen a recycling. The dean of trash. The better Crocker mixing it up. Missin the Jackson. OK Thank you Tommy. That was fancy. A and going with the thing trash I like things to clean my tummy and I have but I can't stand loading docks being dirty I can't stand trash on the ground so sustainable materials management is really everything's a resource I really don't even like calling it trash everything is a resource we can reuse it and we can't reuse it or recycle it we've got to figure out how to change the packaging for it so this is been my mission I've been here for twenty years twenty plus years just like Hyacinth and Tommy we all came about at the same time and came in to Georgia Tech when a lot like Chuck said a lot of these programs were just starting so we've had some very creative times so this is what you know encouraging research expand recycling opportunities do we have recycling program when I first started here yes it was very limited. Develop waste diversion programs and really to promote to decrease the amount of waste of everybody's generating here on campus and then you know as we move forward is to encourage an environmentally conscious campus community. So we're going to do an overview of the pros of my department talk about statistics operations a gauge manned and programs that we're doing so this is going to be more broad based rather than focused on one thing so this is Georgia Tech this is all the trash that were generating twenty seven thousand students seven thousand faculty staff all the visitors whether it's a football game or they're here for a lot of kids comfort classes summer classes two hundred thirty nine buildings and I see our building managers here today and ten parking garages that adds up to a lot of trash. OK Like I said I came here January of one nine hundred ninety seven. That's my department there we're proud of our Packer truck and this is my crew overhears at this table. They're the ones that you see in the buildings picking everything up. A Look sit down John OK. He loves the attention he's we've got that in common I guess. You know so came we really didn't have anything there was no I like to tell the story when I first started here I came from Auburn and I walked into my first day and yes Chuck did hire me. They didn't have an office for me they didn't have a phone for me they didn't have a computer talk about creating things out of nothing they put me in a file cabinet room and it was my neighbor Vickie CLARKE It was her file cabinet room so she didn't like me from the beginning you know so and then to take that and build that and see all the programs what we've created so and the departmental structure I've got a foreman Tom a lot of you know Tom Martin we've got. Recycling Specialist three shonen and we've got Nick we've got Dennis we've got Damien So we've got a really good crew right now and then in the office of course we've got Where's Hart Hart is at the table still at the registration table and Maria there is Maria as she's going to be doing the panel this afternoon OK now this is my question we're going to talk about statistics how many tons and mix metal is the largest per weight item that we collect OK how many tons of mixed metal have we collected this year hands raised no guess Jack Jack you can't win everything. OK OK he wins. It is it's five hundred tons. It's made out of. Jack's another one that's not very shy of anything so that's what we track in our office that's what you see you see mix metals five hundred tons that's a lot of mixed metal and you say well what the heck where are we getting mixed metals from everything file cabinets old bed frames from house scene you know there's a tremendous amount of metal paper products are a second thing you see cardboard you see are mixed office paper are confidential. So and then further down you see hardback books but all that adds up to a tremendous amount of fiber coming off this campus. The ones that you think of. Recycling Program most of you all think of plastic and aluminum but you can see you know it takes six tons of aluminum cans and eighteen tons of plastic so the clothing and household goods are done during our student move out our game day recycling bottles and cans and then we do nonperishable food so that's how things break down that we track and there it is paper and cardboard. Or indoor recycling containers that you see in all of your buildings you know that's the campus standard and then the outdoor recycling sites. We started like just with a couple and we're up to thirty one sites now. And they want more they want it convenient but then again is that too many containers out on campus I don't know there's a debate going on about that paper pick up I've got a video it's not it's long but it's really cool and Darrell do I just hit it this was created by a student assistant and it shows the Life and Times of a cardboard I mean a paper pick up day. How it runs and this is a truck that you see coming across campus. Georgia Tech recycles more than two hundred twenty tons of paper a year just over four tons a week this paper is collected every Wednesday. The office of solar waste management uses a compact in truck meant especially for this purpose then the paper is taken from campus to a recycling vendor where the process of paper recycling begins so you might be wondering what can I recycle in the paper bins only certain types of paper are allowed to use or office paper magazines junk mail file folders catalogues brochures paperback books sticky notes and paper board however corrugated cardboard facial tissue not kins food contaminated keepers paper beverage cups and any paper lined with plastic a wax are not allowed for more information about Georgia Tech's recycling program check us out online at Recycle dot God you go jackets go green. And I'd really like to have a bunch of those videos made for how we collect all the different types of materials on campus. Operations week we touch just about every entity on campus the Greeks athletics. Subjects or food service provider so with our Greeks we have a program with outdoor recycling sites we also have an east main drop off site which is on your right. That's used by off campus faculty staff and students we also get a lot of Atlanta. Atlanta residents that use that for the building managers you know if you have people that have confidential or sensitive materials I know you all use that service is you just call or send hard an e-mail and we'll pick up your materials also for moves somebody is moving out of your department somebody is doing some purging will provide temporary recycling containers for you and here's the guts of it dumpsters Rohloff and compact. And ya'll have got ya we've seen all three of these on campus and we also bring temporary ones on a temporary roll off song campus also so a lot of them are for trash and then we have one for recycling and those aren't staged pictures which is good you never know like when I had visitors to come on campus we go out take a look you know we try and keep them pretty clean P.R. marketing you've got to get the message out you know it doesn't do any good to have all these containers out there if you if people don't know how to use them you know you know we've got a website we do tabling like we're doing tabling today we have a monthly newsletter you know we do have an identify registered trademark and Signy age good sign telling people what material goes in there is just so so important. Students we're all here for the students and I love the students really make it you know the student alumni association we were the first ones to they have a that's not in the ward it's a. OK it's money. I couldn't get that one out it's money and the first year that they did that and they gave us ten thousand dollars to buy recycling containers That's how passionate they were the very first year that they were able to do that because I forget how old that. Association is now it's probably about six years old now five six years old but the very first year they did it they were so committed to the recycling program that they gave us ten thousand dollars. Class projects always get involved. The Tower of Babel on over here with all those and if you put that in scale I walk through that thing that's in the. Rich building and. You see the student and then how told that really is and then over here students we have these out cozies are in the clouds building and. We had some recycling now close when that fit when the building was built and a student came doesn't said we'd love to. Paint one of them and they came up with Pokey man I'm going pokey man you know I didn't know that was so big with the students but apparently is just let them be creative get involved with the students. And then we got to move them in then we have to move a mound you know our cardboard program is a really good program we set up sites all through housing and very simple a lot of the stuff is just simple give them a place to put it and you'll get good clean materials which is what Holly was talking about that's why our materials are so marketable because they are good clean materials so you can see with the carport we've set up sites all over housing and they participate now this on the other side this is very exciting during the student move that we collect nonperishable food household items and clothes. All of and it all goes we've used different. Companies and we've given to Goodwill Salvation Army. So all of that is diverted that's the biggest thing is diverting things from the landfill and things that can be reused and then they set up a food bank here on Georgia tag for students or. Through challenge so and it's a great program just unloading that I went I went and unloaded all that food that we had collected and they stuck this is just one shelf if you see it it's shelf after shelf after shelf and students can come in there get food and there's places there to actually eat there where program. So we've got the Aware program actively working to achieve resource efficiency so if you see that it's called Tony Tom and Teenie and some of you probably have this program in your department already. Look who it is OK because what we wanted to do his behavior change and actually uses Now when I first tried to talk to him about that he goes What are you talking about you're not going to take people's trash cans away the revolt on campus and I'm not using that but once he is it he's got that set right there right beside his desk and it's really to make you learn. And think about it because y'all generate trash I'll bring trash from home or from eating now or whatever y'all bring your trash on to this campus in and expect to get rid of it and pay to get rid of it so we needed to behavior change we saw a fifty percent reduction this was at the very When we were doing the pilot program of solid waste on campus and increased recycling and this is a joint program that we did with Tommy and the Building Services Department. Because what I did and this was so important is because as I disabled the program further and further up and taken people's trash cans way they're very attached to him is I did a study how much are we spending on plastic bags in trash cans and they go into that trash can and less than twenty four hours later and they're pulled out of there put in a dumpster and taken to the landfill we're spending one hundred thousand dollars just on trash bags just to do that this was one of the first. Audits that we did this is actually from. The fab building and when you see all of that and you can see this is a difference live now because we weren't able to do a lot of things before that's all the trash the rest of that can either be reduced by the amount of bags we're doing a composting program a. Pilot composting program on our paper towels you know the food waste over here the aluminum the paper everything so there's a there's ways to divert all these materials from your way string and it doesn't hurt to have President Peterson support your program. Because I now use it all the time when people say what we can't do that our professors won't allow us to do that I say you know what President Peterson and the provost can do it and your professors can then I think. I think you can. Say I hope everybody's been to one of our Earth Day vans that was one world together that was twenty that was this year our twentieth anniversary of Earth Day. A great program. Since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight we do a lot of education there's a lot of free a lot of the departments here participate in Earth Day and also have won awards at Earth Day and the T. shirts. We do this is all about diverting materials again and the office supply exchange we do that year round now I just got a call from Jerry Davis and he says Cindy I've got a you know boxes and boxes of old binders and I said we'll pick them up we'll pick them up will storm until next year and put them into our office of supply exchange you've got to be a Georgia Tech you've got to have a buzz card but you can come and get all the materials clothing. There's some good stuff we get stuff that doesn't between move out and Earth Day we get to the still got tags on it athletic shoe recycling and then. Electronics recycling and that's an opportunity for people that have got OK people that have got. Old electronics at home you know because your electronics that are paid for by Georgia Tech need to go to the surplus department if you've got stuff at home we give you an opportunity once a year to bring it to campus for free OK. Jacket. Sorry about that we started this program we're in our tenth anniversary right now ten years of go jackets go green. And that is our waste of version program that we have at the stadium OK So what does that mean a lot of volunteers we get mostly students but this year we've had. We've had a couple that come and volunteer I think their alumni of Georgia Tech you can see how many tons more than one hundred ninety tons of recycled material. And increased game day diversion to twenty thirty percent those are pretty good statistics it took a while and I tell you not to tell a joke on chalk again but anyway so I go to a conference and the whole point of going to this conference was to learn about special event recycling and I went I was so excited I came back I sat down with Chuck and I said my God we got to do this at the athletic at the stadium everybody you know has got a great program he goes now he says let athletics take care of it and I was so impassioned about it and two weeks before the first game of that season Chuck came up to me and he says Do you have the game to recycling program ready to go. But. Being smart I have been working on it all that time so yes I did and I had put that we we had a great season and it's just grown and grown ever since how do we do it. You know with a lot of volunteers we've got great people that attend and great volunteers. And they actually which the crew can attest to is they actually wait for the crew and the volunteers to come along to. Give them their blue bags it's very simple simple like I said. Train them to do it and then they wait for the blue bags for the bottles and cans given out by student volunteers. They fill the bags up during kill gating and then you know we go back on Sunday and pick them up. Very good program stadium we've got recycling bins located on the plaza and at all ten of the gates we call them green greeters you know the volunteers will stand there could you can't take anything into the stadium you know everything if you're drinking no water or you're drinking whatever they drink there but you know. Just like all he said It don't take pictures of the beer bottles and say they're from Georgia Tech but yeah and then this year was a big year for us what you see on the very left hand side are our new flags our new recycle flags and also our new recycling containers inside we pick we pick the we pick the you know pick it out every have after every game and then cardboard they generate a tremendous amount cardboard everything's delivered in boxes everything whether it's a seat cushion a pot rain poncho peanuts whatever it all comes in cardboard boxes so we pick up quite a few times before the game and after the game. OK. Composting is near and dear to my heart also and you say OK what are you going to do next Cindy Well this form is one of the things I said I wanted to do next I've been wanting to do an educational form to share all of the stuff the facilities is doing for a long time but after that. We're doing a pilot program for composting your coffee cups if you've got those your sugar packet everything we're going to be composting today we've got containers set up on either side by the coffee in the donut. And this is the pilot program that's going on at the E.P.B. building right now. OK so diverting paper products. You know and when you look at it. Food waste and composed the pools are one of the largest waste streams that we've got on this campus it's truly amazing So that's the next big step we've got these programs in place and they're very good programs but we still are putting a lot of stuff in the landfill it we've got to go so this is starting to E.B.B. it will also be going into the Living Building Challenge and hopefully it does take time all these programs because everybody walks in now and sees all the things that we've accomplished and I'm going No that just didn't happen overnight that took twenty years twenty years of hard work before tween Tommy Hyacinthe everybody of facilities it's taken a long time to get these programs up and running this is our new chapter and there's a paper towel recycling in the bathrooms that's a new thing you're going to see in your building and that's something new that you're going to see is you know we're going to divert all of that So with that said that the hope that gives you. A broad based of what my department does we're very proud of it and. That. This is what I want you to do you know be inspired. Be a green champion beat up on plastic bag man that's who that is down there OK this was one of our Earth Day events we had kept him planted against bad man and he wears an outfit that's got that's a year's worth of plastic bags that the average person uses. Yeah yeah. So they they they staged this and we had planted tears there from all over land and this it was great they came up with their own skit and that's what I really need everybody do is to be a green champion on this campus so thank you very much. Any questions I don't have time. I don't have time courting Di you know.