Lunch & Learn

Back to Basics

Less Litter B-More

Fix-it Fair

I'm Dreaming of a .... White Waste Audit!

We had an awesome time attendingthe Station North Tool Library's Fix itFair on October 20. The Fair was afree opportunity to get all sorts ofitems ranging from bikes to toasterovens and jewelry repaired.

As part of the engagement portionof the Hop Reuse Hub's mission, onOctober 30th, we hosted the firstHop Reuse Hub Lunch and Learn.The Reuse Hub's student assistant,Roderick Bowlby '19, taughtattendees how to maintain and fixtheir bicycles. Have an idea for a future topic?Let us know: bgregor9@jhu.edu

HOMEWOOD RECYCLING

Campus UpdateDECEMBER 2018

campus recycling made easier!

Did you see our America RecyclesDay posts? We are encouragingJHU community members to go"Back to Basics" with their recyclinghabits. Follow us @HomewoodRecyclingon Facebook, Instagram, andYouTube to view all of our videosand tips!

On October 1, we teamed up with JHUSustainability and Trash Free Maryland tohost the inaugural Charles Village Clean UpCrew. Passionate JHU students, faculty, andstaff joined us on a litter clean up aroundCharles Village and Remington. Interested in joining the Charles VillageClean Up Crew? Contact: info@trashfreemaryland.org

43.7The tons of waste collected ofcompost in October. This is a recordbreaking monthly total for compost!Keep up the excellent work!

As part of our Back to Basicscampaign, we partnered with SHIPstudents to do a small campus wasteaudit. The audit occurred on the verycold and snowy Thursday in November.Earlier that week we collected bagsfrom the AMR I and MSEL/BLC.

We searched each bag for contaminates such as plastic bags in thecompost or food in the recycling. The main contaminant we saw incompost bags were non-compostable food packaging like snack bags,while the main contaminate in the recycling bags were coffee cups.

We plan to analyze our findings and develop better educational materialsto help you, help us clean up the JHU waste streams. Stay tuned to ournext Campus Update to find out the results!

Our recycling hauler, Advant-EdgeSolutions, assisted with performingthe audit. We sorted through compost,recycling, and incinerate bags fromboth the AMR I and MSEL/BLC.