Waste Diversion at Fleming College
Sort it out!
We have a centralized sorting system for waste and recycling, located throughout the campus. Students and staff are responsible for properly sorting their own waste at the designated sorting stations.
Look for a Sorting Station near you!
What goes where?
| Organics | Landfill | Containers | Fibres |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food scraps | Coffee cup lids | Plastic cups | Computer paper |
| Tissues | Chip bags | Milk containers | Newspaper |
| Napkins | Styrofoam | Pop bottles | Magazines |
| Candy wrappers | Juice boxes | Cardboard drink trays | |
| Straws | Metal cans | Unsoiled paper bags | |
| Disposable cutlery | Aluminum tin foil and plates | ||
| Paper coffee cups | Glass bottles |
Waste at Fleming
To reach local, provincial and national GHG emission reduction targets, Fleming encourages the campus community to reduce as much waste as possible from daily college activities as a staff or student. All waste contributes to global warming, deforestation, biodiversity loss as well as air, land and water pollution.
Our most recent College cafeteria and food services area waste audit results reflect the proportion of waste to landfill and recyclables captured or misdirected to landfill.
| WASTE | Sutherland Campus | Frost Campus |
|---|---|---|
| Recycled | 23% | 35% |
| Landfill | 77% | 65% |
| Recyclable items in Landfill | 50% | 72% |
• January 9 and 10th, 2020 (facilitated by Best Service Pros.)
2018 - 2019 Annual Waste Summary: Office of Sustainability
| Waste | MT | GHG (tCO2e) |
|---|---|---|
| SUTHERLAND WASTE | 208 | 771 |
| FROST WASTE | 73.2 | 250 |
| SCRAP WOODS - WASTE | 16.13 | 55 |
| both Sutherland & Frost | ||
| TOTAL LANDFILL: | 297.33 | 1076 |
RECYCLING
| Mixed Recycling Totes | MT | GHG (tCO2e) |
|---|---|---|
| Building | MT | GHG (tCO2e) |
| SUTHERLAND | .68 | 2 |
| FROST | 8.78 | 30 |
| TOTAL | 9.45 | 32 |
|---|---|---|
| Comingled Containers | ||
| SUTHERLAND | 24.27 | 83 |
| CARDBOARD | ||
| BREALEY | 118 | 403 |
| FROST | 40 | 135 |
| Total Cardboard | 157.5 | 538 |
| TOTAL RECYCLING | 191.22 | 653 |
How you can help? Read our top 3 campus waste reduction tips!
1.Bring your own reusable mugs and cutlery to campus.
Washing stations are available at both Sutherland and Frost campuses in the cafeteria area to clean your own dishware.
Fact: In less than three hours, over 130 disposable coffee cups were counted from the cafeteria station at Sutherland campus (January 2020). Thousands of single-use cups and cutlery are used at Fleming, yet these items remain in our landfills for decades.
2.Emptied single use straws, coffee cups, lids and cutlery go into the landfill stream.
Fact: In Peterborough and Lindsay, these items are non recyclable. When they are put into the recycling bins, the bag is contaminated and sent to landfill instead.
Single use dishware are the primary items that contaminate our campus recycling, as well as liquids. Sink stations for emptying liquids and rising reusable items are available in the cafeterias.
3.Empty aluminum cans, plastic bottles, paper and film plastics go into Recycling bins not the Landfill bins.
Fact: Did you know that 50% of waste from Sutherland and 70% of waste from Frost cafeteria bins were recyclable items? By choosing the right bin to dispose of waste can make a huge difference in reducing waste to landfill and greenhouse gas emissions. The primary items found in our waste audit in the landfill bins were recyclable beverage containers.