{"id":117402,"date":"2020-09-04T22:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=117402"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:02","slug":"new-waste-bins-on-campus-to-reduce-residual-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/09\/04\/new-waste-bins-on-campus-to-reduce-residual-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"New waste bins on campus to reduce residual waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some four hundred new waste bins have been installed around campus Woudestein this week. The aim is that these will help ensure that three-quarters of waste is recycled by 2024.<\/p>\n

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New waste bins at the campus<\/span><\/p>

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Currently, around 70 per cent of waste is not recycled. This must be reduced to 25 per cent by 2024, explained Desir\u00e9e Denie, Project Manager at Real Estate and Facilities. \u201cThe ultimate aim is even to make the entire campus a zero waste campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five waste streams can separated in the buildings in the same way as using the previous temporary cardboard containers: coffee cups, paper, fruit and vegetable waste, residual and plastic, metal and drink cartons (PMC). Outside, there are three waste streams. Fruit and vegetable waste and paper will not be collected there. \u201cVermin is attracted by fruit and vegetable waste and we\u2019d of course prefer not to have that. And paper collected outside quickly becomes wet and dirty, making it more difficult to recycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Better waste streams\u2019<\/h2>

While in Rotterdam increasingly less waste is collected in separate streams, the university has actually decided to separate more waste. \u201cI understand that the municipality has decided to separate waste after collection, for logistics reasons or to prevent vermin. But separating waste properly at source, as it\u2019s known, results in higher quality waste streams,\u201d explained Denie. These streams are easier to recycle and process into new products.<\/p>\n\n\t

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