Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.07
Liaison Jessica Krejcik
Submission Date Oct. 11, 2012
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.1

Concordia University
OP-21: Hazardous Waste Management

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Rosa Gullo
Assistant to the Director
Environmental Health & Safety
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Does the institution have strategies in place to safely dispose of all hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste and seek to minimize the presence of these materials on campus?:
Yes

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A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Policies are in place in labs to reduce use, Concordia's chemical inventory also minimizes the need for labs to overuse or order hazardous chemicals.

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A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:
Lab users put in requests to Environmental, Health and Safety to have their hazardous waste picked-up. Waste is collected by EH&S personnel, who then place it in storage facilities designed for these purposes. The hazardous waste is then picked up by companies specializing in this type of collection.

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The website URL where information about hazardous materials management is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Concordia has a contract with a hazardous waste disposal company for safe disposal of various hazardous wastes and their containers, including paint, paint cans, lab chemicals, acid, alklaine, and car batteries, used oil, aluminum sheets, and fluorescent lights. The environmental health and safety (EHS) department is responsible for collecting hazardous waste, storing it, and calling the company for collection. Contacts are established with the generators of the waste (usually labs) and the lab managers call EHS to pick up the waste.

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