{"id":69859,"date":"2017-10-23T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=69859"},"modified":"2019-03-13T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:13:47","slug":"students-zero-waste-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/23\/students-zero-waste-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Students get their hands dirty in zero-waste push"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x718rd4Elyw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> students spent two days sorting, categorizing and weighing trash in October as part of a campus-wide audit. The university&#8217;s second waste audit in almost 20 years is designed to provide valuable data to empower better decision making and holistic procurement and disposal practices.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The big picture is we&#8217;re hoping to move the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> System towards this idea of zero waste and zero waste is a concept that rejects the idea of trash,&rdquo; said <strong>Nicole Chatterson<\/strong>, student sustainability coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> System has to move to net-zero energy production by 2035, which means if we&#8217;re using a little bit of electricity to dry our hands, instead of paper towels, we&#8217;re actually going to be generating that electricity from renewable sources on campus instead of cutting down trees to make 21 tons of paper towel waste a year,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The big picture is we&#8217;re hoping to move the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> System towards this idea of zero waste and zero waste is a concept that rejects the idea of trash.<br \/>\n&#8212;Nicole Chatterson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa student and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/\">Office of Sustainability<\/a> waste reduction fellow <strong>Navin Tagore-Erwin<\/strong> said, &ldquo;This is basically the first step in reducing campus waste is to find out what we&#8217;re actually throwing out. This kind of provides the groundwork for what we can specifically look at in terms of waste reduction and better management practices in terms of disposal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The audit is expected to be completed by the end of the fall semester. This audit protocol will be shared as a template for other <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> campuses to consider in order to assist in reducing the systemwide waste footprint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-waste-audit.jpg\" alt=\"Students sorting through many bags of trash\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-69897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-waste-audit.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-waste-audit-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa students spent two days sorting, categorizing and weighing trash as part of a campus-wide audit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":69897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[1038,73,9,947,56],"class_list":["post-69859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-office-of-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/manoa-waste-audit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69859"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70244,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69859\/revisions\/70244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}