Waste handling at CBH - Campus Albanova

PROCEDURE
Decisionmaker: Head of School
Valid from:   7 October 2019
Changed from: 21 October 2021
Reference number: C-2019-0868
Responsible for review and questions: Infrastructure Manager

1. Purpose

The purpose of this routine is to describe how to handle waste in accordance with applicable rules and legal requirements (hazardous waste excluded).

2. Scope

This routine applies to all employees at CBH working at Albanova floor 1-5.

3. Definitions

Waste: All fractions of waste except hazardous waste.

4. Responsibilities

The Head of the School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), has the overall responsibility for the proper management of waste handling.

The goods reception empties the fractions at each floor and house 10 on a regular basis. They also assist when adding new fractions or remove existing fractions from waste rooms and similar.

All employees are responsible for sorting their waste into the fractions available locally and contact the goods reception if there is any doubt of where/into which fraction waste should be disposed.

If any of the fractions are full, contact the goods reception immediately (extension 8430) and they will handle it.

The cleaning staff empties the combustible waste in the pantries/kitchens and in the offices.

5. Procedure

Table 1. Fractions at the different locations at Albanova - X=the fraction exists.

*Mixed uncoloured glass and coloured glass.

Examples of what can be placed in the different fractions

Aluminum

• Aluminum foil

Batteries

• All kind of “household” batteries, including lead and mercury batteries.

Cardboard/carton

• Corrugated cardboard
• Thick cardboard
• Brown kraft paper

Combustible

• Envelopes
• Books
• Rags
• Cleaning waste
• Dirty packaging
• Overhead film
• Files

Glass (coloured)

• Coloured glass bottles
• Coloured glass jars
• Coloured wine and liquor bottles

Make sure to remove caps and lids!

Glass (uncoloured)

• Clear glass bottles
• Clear glass jars

Make sure to remove caps and lids!

Hard Plastics

• Plastic bottles
• Plastic caps
• Dairy packaging of plastic
• Plastic drums
• Plastic lids
• Clean plastid labware

Light bulbs

• Light bulbs
• For some rooms fluorescent lamps (fluorescent lamps can always be recycled at the Albanova goods reception)

Metal

• Tin cans
• Tubes
• Caps
• Lids
• Candle holders
• Paint cans, brush dry and completely empty
• Metal scrap
• Components of heating, ventilation and air conditioning

Paper

• Office paper
• Magazines
• Brochures
• Catalogues
• Computer printouts
• Fax paper
• Flyers
• Journals

Note that paper with plastic or wax should NOT be sorted into this fraction (for example envelopes, post-it notes, wrapping of corying/printing paper).

Soda cans

• Aluminum soda cans

Styrofoam boxes

• Styrofoam boxes (clean)

Toner

• Empty toner cartridges from printers and copy machines.

Additional fractions can be found at the goods reception. Examples of fractions found there are:

• Electronic waste
• Computer screens
• Furniture

Food waste

Food waste is thrown into designated containers in the respective kitchenette, the container is placed in the environmental room when it is full, the goods reception then takes care of it.

6. Attachments

“No Attachments”.

7. Amendments