Waste Audit Process
Wurster Hall Cardboard 3%
Each building has a unique waste stream and requires its own approach to how to minimize the amount of waste being generated. Waste audits are a way to assess the waste stream and find solutions.
The audits last multiple days. The waste is sorted into : Landfill, Mixed Paper, Cardboard, Compost, Metal and Glass, Recyclable Plastics, and NonRecyclable Plastics.
Mixed Paper 11% Nonrecyclable Plastics 12%
Compost 51%
Landfill 16%
Cardboard 3%
Stanley Hall
Metal and Glass 5%
Mixed Paper 2%
Recyclable Plastics 7%
Compost 50%
Metal and Glass 4%
Wurster Hall is a multi-purpose use building with offices, class rooms, design studios, and a cafĂŠ. Wurster Hall generates an average of 288.5lbs of landfill waste stream daily. This waste is highly variable.
California Hall Mixed Paper 2%
Recyclable Plastics 3%
Landfill 10%
Non-recyclable Plastics 23%
California Hall is an administrative building on the UC Berkeley campus. The amount of waste generated in the landfill each day is 25.7lbs. The waste was mainly food and drink related.
NonRecyclable Plastics 46%
Metal and Glass 3% Cardboard 3% Recyclable Plastics 3% Landfill 17%
Compost 26%
Stanley Hall is predominately laboratory building with a few classrooms and a cafe. Because of this, the waste was predominately plastics. Stanley Hall produces an average of 262.6lbs per day.