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Waste Management in Commercial Buildings: Developing Mastery AGENDA Why talk about waste? How do we improve? How can BOMA BESt help? Who are the key players?
Transcript of Waste Management in Commercial Buildings: Developing Mastery … · 2014-12-01 · Waste Management...
Waste Management in Commercial Buildings: Developing Mastery
AGENDA
þ Why talk about waste?
þ How do we improve?
þ How can BOMA BESt help?
þ Who are the key players?
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“Get Moving on your Immovables!”
þ Buildings account for 25% of all landfilled waste, 50% of all natural resource extracHon, 1/3 of all energy use
þ ¾ of all landfills in NA have filled to capacity and closed since 1978
þ Diversion in Ontario is stagnaHng at 25% overall, and at 13% for the ICI sector
þ 3R RegulaHons, 70% of all waste is generated at work
Goals are at odds with our progress. What’s missing?
Targets: 60% Diversion Performance: 13% Diversion
How did we get into this mess?
Composition Trends 3Rs Hierarchy
Our predicament
þ We spend a lot of Hme and energy that isn’t as purposeful as it could be
þ Our focus has been on recycling alone: we
love our metrics and live in an evidenced based world
þ We’ve focused on targets and forgot
about the relaHonal aspects of managing waste
Typical approach to managing waste
þ Place blue boxes and other recycling receptacles in common areas
þ Arrange for cleaners to remove the
materials to a central collecHon area
þ Engage a hauler(s) to transport
material to landfill or a MRF for processing
What is usually done
Using BOMA BESt® criteria as a management tool not just as a cerLficaLon program
Get out of our silos!
þ Purposeful, integrated approach
þ Treat proper waste management as something that ma[ers
ABOUT BOMA BESt® – Program DescripLon
þ Average secHon score for waste secHon is 85.5% (compared to 80.7% in 2012)
þ Buildings that recerHfy with BOMA BESt® achieved 8% increase in waste diversion.
BOMA BESt®: Why is this an effecLve framework?
þ HolisLc approach to building assessment
þ Roadmap for operaHonal improvement
þ Provides the framework for true cost savings
þ Requires us to engage with other stakeholders
þ Requires us to assess our appeHte for change
þ It is acHon oriented!
What are we good at? The low hanging fruit….
Let’s Get Moving!
þ Over half of BOMA BESt® CerHfied Office buildings divert more than 60% of their waste from landfill (only 13% overall for ICI)
þ We would benefit from a more engaged relaHonship to the criteria if they want to truly move toward
a landfill free building þ Let’s start working with the waste criteria
Who do we need to engage with to be successful?
þ Architects
þ Designers
þ Service Providers
þ Leasing Personnel
þ Building Owner/Manager
þ Tenants of all types
þ Custodial Staff
þ Building Operators
þ Suppliers
New Building ConstrucLon ExisLng Buildings
Build your Green Team þ Designers
þ Service Providers
þ Leasing Personnel
þ Building Owner/Manager
þ Tenants of all types
þ Custodial Staff
þ Building Operators
þ Suppliers
The key players
þ Architects
þ Interior Designers
þ Leasing Personnel
These professionals would benefit from a greater understand of
building opera6ons and how people behave
Building Owners/Managers Building Operators Custodial Staff
The key players
Project Managers
The key players
The key players: facility tenants
The key players: food service/retail tenants
Restaurants Coffee Shops
Retail
Suppliers Haulers Processors
The key players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #1
þ Is there a waste diversion program that incorporates the recycling of materials such as: paper & cardboard; bo[les and cans; food waste; and plasHcs for occupants, visitors and operaHons at the site?
Tip: This is a pre-‐requisite to achieve BOMA BESt®!
ü Office tenants
ü Food service tenants ü Retail ü Leasing Personnel ü Haulers ü The public
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #2
þ Are there separate storage/handling faciliHes for used paper products, glass, metal and plasHc?
ü Architects: new construcHon ü Haulers ü Building Operators
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #3
þ Are there collecHon points for sorHng paper, glass, metal and plasHc in the areas where waste is generated?
þ Ensure they are standardized throughout
the facility þ Same material categories, proper and
instrucHve signage
Tip: Use clear bags in all recycling bins!!
ü Desk side/workstaHon ü Areas of greater generaHon ü Kitchene[es ü Washrooms
ü Kitchens of food service tenants ü Lobbies/common areas
ü Custodial staff collecHon carts, training
Program Component Where to Engage
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #4
þ Is there a recycling program for the following:
ü Ba[eries? ü Fluorescent lamps?
ü Electronic waste? Note: Don’t forget shredded paper, confidenGal
document destrucGon
ü Tenants ü Service Providers ü Auditor
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #5
þ Does the building have a composHng program for organic waste?
ü Tenants ü Service Providers ü Building Operators (must be managed
well)
ü Auditor
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #6
þ Are waste audits conducted: • Annually? (5 points)
• Every 2-‐3 years? (3 points)
• At longer intervals? (0 points)
• No (0 points)
þ How do we use the results of our audit? Use audiHng as a management tool
ü 3rd party independent auditor ü Service Providers ü Property Manager
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #7
þ Is regular monitoring of waste conducted?
ü Service Providers of all types ü SpecificaHon Clauses of waste and
recycling contractors/tenders
ü Invoices
ü Auditor
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #8
þ What is the current diversion rate?
ü Service Providers of all types
ü Auditor
ü Property Manager
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #9
þ What was the total waste (landfill plus recycling) in metric tonnes for
the 12 month period specified?
ü Haulers: specificaHon clauses of waste and tenders, invoices
ü Tenants
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #10
þ Are there waste-‐reducHon targets?
ü Auditor ü Building Manager
ü What is your appeHte for change?
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
BOMA BEST ® Waste Management Criteria #11
þ Is there a wri[en policy intended to minimize renovaHon / construcHon waste being sent to landfill?
ü Haulers ü Project Managers: SpecificaHon clauses
ü Disposal reports
ü Holding your contractors to account!
Program Component Who to Engage: Key Players
A mature relationship to our goals
Leadership: It’s very practical
þ Our buildings can have all of the “bells and whistles” but it is how our
systems are managed, how we interact and how people behave that ulHmately inform outcomes more than targets, policies or technology alone
þ Engaged people are less likely to try and escape from accountability
It’s easy. Success is not future bound. þ The world seems immovable, it is not þ It’s a myth that this integrated approach won’t work in business
þ Costs less from haulage to equipment replacement to operaHonal Hme, it’s much more expensive to do what we are doing þ It’s a decisive and strategic approach to engagement
Change is not on the agenda…it IS the agenda
þ If we feel that in concert with others we can have an impact, we are more likely to act.
þ Shin the narraHve from what is wrong to what is possible!
Contact Us:
Angie McMurray Waste Management Specialist McMurray Environmental SoluHons, Inc. T: 416-‐698-‐9331 E: [email protected] W: www.mcmurrayenvironmental.com
Hazel Sueon Manager, Environmental Standards BOMA Canada T: 416-‐214-‐1912 x 103 E: hsu[[email protected] W: www.bomacanada.ca www.bomabest.com
