Presentation delivered at MassRecycle's 4th Annual Green Office / Green Facility Conference, Bentley University, June 15, 2010. Get invited to next year’s conference by signing up to MassRecycle’s free email newsletter at www.massrecycle.org.

1. Marc Fournier
Assistant Director for Plant Operations
& Sustainability, LEED AP

2.  Saving money (over the long term)
 Complying with Massachusetts Waste Ban and
Universal Waste regulations
 Conserving valuable natural resources
 Employee motivation and OTJ satisfaction
 Mitigating the effects of climate change for us
and our kids
 Doing the right thing

3.  We are here to help you with your individual
issues!

4. Top Five Materials Disposed in 2000 in Comparison
With All Other Materials
Paper
28%
Food
18%
All Other Materials
26%
C&D
10%
Other Organics
11%
Corrugated
Cardboard
7%

5. “Waste Ban" regulations (310 CMR 19.017) prohibit
Massachusetts solid waste management facilities from
accepting the following recyclable and/or toxic items
for disposal or transfer for disposal.
 Construction & Demolition Materials: Asphalt
Pavement, Brick, Concrete, Metal & Wood *
 Cathode Ray Tubes
 Glass Containers
 Lead Acid Batteries
 Leaves &Yard Wastes
 Metal Containers
 Recyclable Cardboard & Paper
 Single Polymer Plastics
 Whole Tires
 White Goods (Large Appliances)

6. UniversalWastes covered in the Massachusetts Rule:
 Hazardous batteries, primarily nickel cadmium (NiCd)
and button batteries;
 Mercury-containing devices, such as thermostats,
manometers, switches, water meters, thermometers,
and gauges;
 Mercury-containing lamps, such as fluorescent lamps;
and
 Hazardous waste pesticides, e.g. mercury-based
pesticides, arsenicals, and chlorinated pesticides;
banned or suspended pesticides; pesticides subject
to recall by the manufacturer or FIFRA; certain unused
pesticides, and/or pesticides collected in a state-
approved waste pesticide collection program.

7.  No one size fits all: size, sectors, materials,
geography
 Small and medium businesses are
underserved
 Municipalities can play a role

8.  Adjoining businesses
 Private businesses &
public entities (muni’s,
state institutions, etc.)
 Large & small
businesses
 Business recycling
organizations: Center
for Ecological
Technology, IRN, etc.

9.  Haulers/Recyclers
 Business organizations like the Chamber of
Commerce, Rotary Club, Lions Club
 Piggy-backing off of existing business
projects/programs
 Personal relationships are so important!

10.  Evaluate your current system (hauler name,
contract details, service level, costs)
 Identify who arranges for & pays for waste
management services
 Search for prospective partners in your
building or local area
 Perform a waste audit to determine type and
quantity of recyclables that could be diverted

11.  Indentify suitable collection areas at your
business and nearby
 Determine container, signage, and employee
education needs
 Identify an in-house leader
 Identify and work with willing, enthusiastic
haulers on source reduction/recycling/trash
collection options
 Perform due diligence regarding your
recycler/hauler’s claims (beware the “Dirty
MRF’s)
 Monitor and make adjustments continuously,
especially by reducing your trash
collection services as recycling increases

12. In order of relative priority:
 Cardboard
 Mixed Paper
 Bottles & Cans
(aluminum, steel, plastic,
& glass) – especially from
food service operations
 Organics
 Universal wastes

13.  Dual stream – where fiber
and container streams are
collected separately
 Single stream – where fiber
and container streams are
collected together
 There is still a vigorous
debate ensuing about the
merits and drawbacks of
both systems, although the
single stream train has left
the station…

14.  Resource Management (RM) compensates
waste contractors based on performance in
achieving waste reduction goals rather than
the volume of waste disposed
 RM aligns waste contractor incentives with the
client’s recycling & waste reduction goals
 Fosters innovative approaches that reduce the
use of materials, lower waste, increase
recycling, and lower costs
 One example: sharing the revenue obtained
from the sale of recyclables between the client
and recycler/waste hauler

17.  Access
 Color coding
 Labeling

19.  Designed and
constructed a new
recycling and trash
transfer site at
Forest Suites at
Lasell College
 Resulted in greater
efficiency, higher
recycling rates, and
improved working
conditions for staff

20.  Winslow boiler room used for storing electronics,
toner cartridges, and electronic media for recycling
 Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. (RBRC) boxes
placed in IT, Plant Operations, and the Bookstore for
recycling rechargeable batteries
 Karandon Garage at Lasell
College converted from
landscape storage to a
recycling center for scrap
metal, mercury containing
products, paint, and other
materials

21.  Lasell College
partnered with the
Wellesley, MA
Recycling & Disposal
Facility 4.5 miles
away to recycle scrap
metal, cardboard,
paint, air
conditioners, tires,
and other materials

22.  The most important
component – often
forgotten
 Monitor continuously
 Translate into the
languages used by
your employees

23.  Engage your
employees in
developing new
systems
 Many of them
really want to do
the right thing
and will surprise
you by helping
create innovative
ways to help out

24.  Lasell College began
purchasing remanufactured
toner cartridges through New
England Office Supplies
 Instituted a blind program to
purchase post-consumer
recycled content copy paper
 Savings from purchasing
remanufactured toner
cartridges used to offset
higher recycled copy paper
costs
 New campus standard developed to print business cards on
post-consumer recycled content paper and list it on our cards

25.  Reusable totes and
other containers
 Donations of surplus
food, furniture,
appliances,
equipment, etc.

27. Marc Fournier
Assistant Director for
Plant Operations &
Sustainability, LEED AP
Lasell College
1844 Commonwealth
Avenue
Newton, MA 02466
(617) 243-2291, (617)
721-0223 (cell)
mfournier@lasell.edu