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Waste Management home page

 

A-Z index of how to deal with wastes generated at the University.
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let us know what other things need to be listed here.

 

How YOU can manage waste effectively
The essential steps to effective waste management. The "duty of care".

 

What happens to the University waste? Find out.
What is waste? Where does the waste go?

 

How the University manages the waste generated by the work we do.
Categories, and hazards, of waste. University personnel with waste management responsibilities.
How does the University of Bath manage its waste? The Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Service (C&HWS or simply 'the Service').

 

Advice on disposal of PCs

 

A guide to hazardous waste management.
Categorisation and segregation of hazardous wastes. Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Streams (mainly from labs and workshops). Discharges to drain.

 

How much hazardous waste do we generate?
(A list for Bath eyes only, however if anyone from outside the University has a legitimate need of this data (hazardous waste only - not recyclable or "ordinary" wastes) please contact the waste team at waste@lists.bath.ac.uk.
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Other links;

 

Substitute Fuels in Cement Kilns. A report from the Health Protection Agency outlining their initial position statement on the public health consequences of these processes . The cement works at Westbury has been trialling some substitute fuels.

  UK-wide blood survey has shown the presence of highly toxic man-made chemicals in every single person tested. WWF-UK National Biomonitoring Survey 2003.
 

Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) council recycling, rubbish and waste pages.

 

Wiltshire County Council environment and planning pages.

 

West Wilts District Council rubbish, waste and recycling pages.

 

Envolve (a local initiative aiming to change the way people live and work, in order to protect the environment and build healthier, safer, kinder communities for us all).

 

The Recycling Consortium (Bristol).

 

United Kingdom Environment Agency (regulatory authority), their Managing Waste pages, and their NetRegs Waste Minimisation pages.

 

UK University environmental pages - Cambridge and Edinburgh.

 

Subscribe to the Warmer Bulletin (World Resource Foundation).

 

Global Directory for Environmental Technology.  Listing of products and services.

 

UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pages on Introduction to Environmental Protection

 

Australian government's pages on the greenhouse effect.

  Ozone depletion.
 
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