Our Waste Top Tips
Always follow the 3 rules of waste management; reduce, reuse, recycle, and please…
• Make responsible purchasing decisions: Make sure you really need what you are buying. Buy products with minimal, recyclable or compostable packaging (compostable packaging can go in the food waste bins). Buy recycled products, this encourages closed loop recycling which reduces energy use and waste. See our purchasing top tips.
• Make yourself familiar with the UEA Waste guide: This tells you which wastes go where
• Dispose of your waste correctly: UEA is colour coding its waste streams to help you use the correct bin:
o Green for recycling - Recycle steel/aluminium cans, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, aerosol cans. All office bins are for recycling only.
o Blue for landfill – general waste which is not hazardous, recyclable or compostable.
o Blue wheelie bins/sacks for confidential waste - please try to minimise your confidential waste. This costs the University £18,000 every year.
o Black for glass - bins are located at external bin stores, the Recycling Zone and West Car Park.
o Brown for food and compostable material - Compost vegetables, fruit, dairy products, egg shells, meat, fish, bones, all cooked and uncooked food items, any compostable material and packaging.
• Make sure you segregate batteries and waste electrical equipment: Battery bins are provided in the Recycling Zone and Estates Loading Bay. An electrical waste bin is located in the Recycling Zone for small items. Large items can be collected… contact Estates Helpdesk x2121 or look at our Maintenance pages for more information.
• Contact UEA Waste Manager Andy Watts a.watts@uea.ac.uk if you need to dispose of hazardous waste: Ensure any other hazardous waste is segregated and not disposed of into bins, skips or down the drain. Other hazardous waste includes:
o Fridges o Printer cartridges
o TVs and monitors
o Fluorescent tubes
o Waste chemicals
o Oil, fuel and lubricants
o Paint
• Join the CarbonCrew and be a waste champion (find out more here).
UEA Big Clean Up
Every year at the end of term, thousands of items are left by students when leaving university accommodation. At UEA we want to stop throwing these resources away and have an annual Big Clean Up. To get involved in next year’s Big Clean Up, get in touch with the Student’s Union or UEA Waste Manager Andy Watts (a.watts@uea.ac.uk).
