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PROJ001 End of Course Reflection  UTKU ÇORAKLI

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PROJ001 End of Course Reflection  UTKU ÇORAKLI

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Utku ÇORAKLI - Proj001 End of Course Reflection

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All the useful links and sources are in this padlet
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http://proj001fall2019.weebly.com/

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-universities-recycling-and-sustainability

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We should try to put Sabancı University 

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We should try to put Sabancı University 

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One look at your local landfill should be more than enough to convince you recycling should be high on America's priority list. On average, Americans recycle about 34% of our waste. This rate is twice as good as it was two decades ago, but many colleges around the country are proving that much more can be done. From giving every student a recycling bin to disposing of everything from bottles to batteries, these 11 colleges are clear leaders in the movement to reduce, reuse, and recycle on campus. Not to mention, as the move toward green resources has become more and more prevalent, we are seeing an increase in jobs with a basis in renewable energy. For example, careers in wind energy are expected to increase by approximately 40% over the next few years, as it did between the years 2004-2009. So-called " green jobs" are predicted to expand both in prevalence and variability - that is to say that increasingly more new jobs are expected to be created in this field.

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"K-College" is a perennial contender in RecycleMania, winning first in two categories in 2008 and took first in the bottles and cans category in 2012. The heart of recycling at the Michigan school is the "Bat Cave," where student volunteers answer questions and run the Rep Room, or Resource Exchange Program. The program houses hundreds of free donated goods like textbooks, mirrors, Christmas lights, pencils and pens, lamps, and more that can still be considered treasure by the right beholder. The recycling department oversees the export of about a ton of food waste a week to a local pig farm, as well as the recycling of calculators, batteries, electric motors, and all other e-waste.

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The University of Connecticut offers many green initiatives which as part of its Office of Environmental Policy. Among the most effective programs include a composting program, Green Game Days, E-Waste and Ink Cartridge Recycling, and a Give and Go Move Out Campaign that occurs on move out day at the end of each school year. In 2012, UConn's Give and Go Move Out campaign collected 10,767 pounds of donations to be given to over 20 local charities that will pass the items on to people in need.

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11 Best College Recycling Programs | Recycling on Campus

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One look at your local landfill should be more than enough to convince you recycling should be high on America's priority list. On average, Americans recycle about 34% of our waste. This rate is twice as good as it was two decades ago, but many colleges around the country are proving that much more can be done.

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I think for proj we should find out about the recycling attitudes of sabancı students first, and then we should think according to what we found.

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A successful college or university campus recycling campaign depends upon the entire process being profitable to the remanufacturer that is organizing the recycling effort. The benefits of a good recycling program, however, are evident including removing waste from landfills as well as providing a new market for the recyclable materials to be made into new products.

Should College Campuses Collect Their Own Recycling or Outsource Pickup?

It's an individual college campus' decision. Many smaller campuses have the school janitors pick up their recycling for a company to collect. By producing more material to recycle, larger schools with more students and economic "footprint" may have a company organize the collecting and disposing of their materials. With larger the amounts of material gathered, a college or university will find it harder to collect all of the material for recycling.

No matter which way a college or university decides to set up a recycling program, there are several things to keep in mind that ensure that the program is successful.

Location & Accessibility

If a school's recycling policy is to be successful, the campus must make sure that there are containers spread in places around campus where students can access and use them easily. Remember, most college students and faculty are not going out of their way to find the recycling containers. Otherwise, the recyclable material will likely be tossed right into the trash just like anything else.

It is also essential to ensure that all students and faculty can access the facility recycling containers easily. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires all facilities and amenities on campus to be equally accessible to everyone. This act includes providing a way for students or faculty that may be in a wheelchair or who use assistive mobile devices to have equal access to partake in the recycling program by being able to access any receptacles easily.

Reflecting the School's Branding/Sustainability Initiatives

The recycling containers used across campus can include a college or university's eco-friendly, environmentally sustainable logo; helping students tie their college or university name with the idea of being more eco-friendly and practicing appropriate recycling measures to help keep their campus recycling-friendly as possible. Most large companies that collect recycling will print the waste receptacles with your college or university's logo for a fee. The "school pride" in associating their college or university's name with the idea of being more eco-friendly will motivate more students to continue to recycle and help make the campaign a more fruitful and profitable venture.

Choosing the Right Recycling Bins Based on Applications

It's also important to select the appropriately colored and sized bins for the needs your campus will have. A critical part of this is ensuring that the materials you are recycling are materials that your area recycles. Some areas recycle different materials such as paper, glass, cardboard, e-waste, etc. Provide the appropriate containers, so students and faculty are easily able to identify what goes in what receptacle.

Getting Involved in 3rd Party Programs

If you are a large college or university with a lot of recycling material it may be worth investing in a 3rd party to come in and help with your campus' recycling process. Having them empty recycling receptacles around campus can save a lot of working hours and take a lot of work off of the school janitors. 3rd Party Programs can make sure every material is going where it need to go to get recycled appropriately.

Conclusion

Setting up a recycling program on your campus will help ensure that you are making the most of the profits available from recyclables. By collecting and recycling as much material as possible, your campus is on its way to achieving its maximum eco-friendly impact.

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How To Run A Successful College Campus Recycling Program

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A successful college or university campus recycling campaign depends upon the entire process being profitable to the remanufacturer that is organizing the recycling effort. The benefits of a good recycling program, however, are evident including removing waste from landfills as well as providing a new market for the recyclable materials to be made into new products.

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Recycling at your university achieves that less materials are burned, buried in the ground or washed away into the ocean. Instead, these resources can be re-used again to generate economic value and benefit people. Recycling is a core aspect of becoming a sustainable university. In this blogpost, you learn about 8 university recycling projects.
What are the benefits of recycling?

Recycling sounds boring, doesn't it? It's dirty and unsexy. But that might just be your first impression. Here are some arguments why you might want to care about the dirty waste that students and staff leave behind:

Your university saves money, by paying less for waste going to landfill or incineration. Your university might even earn money, by selling cardboard, glass or plastic.

Everybody at your university throws away garbage. Students and staff immediately see if a recycling system is in place or not. If you want people to care about environmental issues, then improving recycling is a good way to avoid common complaints that your university doesn't do enough on sustainability.

Litter can spoil beautiful campus gardens, incineration contributes to climate change, as well as seagulls and fish suffocate from plastic. University recycling can help you to reduce your university's environmental impacts.

The resources that go into the goods, buildings and gadgets that make your modern life so convenient are limited. Finding ways to use less material inputs for products and to re-use materials in a circular economy is necessary for long-term prosperity.

What does recycling mean for your university?

In a nutshell: Recycling at your university or college achieves that less materials are burned, buried in the ground or washed away into the ocean. Instead, these resources can be re-used again to generate economic value and benefit people.

Here are some materials to recycle and re-use:

You can recycle these materials by implementing recycling project ideas.

Tip: Often the hotspots where recycling should take place are the library (paper), sports events (plastics), cafeteria and other common areas that students and staff use to take breaks (organic materials), as well as student dormitories, offices and classrooms (about everything).

What are great university recycling ideas?

(1) Understand waste management practices

Before you want to change anything, it helps if you understand how the current system operates. Ask yourself some of these questions:

Who's currently responsible for waste management and recycling?

Is a recycling policy in place?

How is waste collected and by whom?

What governmental regulations affect what materials your university must recycle?

(2) Gather and analyse data

To act strategically, it's important that you establish a baseline. Establish a baseline by asking yourself these questions:

Can you get data from the waste manager or waste haulier about the types of waste that are collected?

How much is currently recycled?

Is this data available for different buildings and over multiple years?

What trends can you see?

Based on this data, can you identify some buildings that are 'recycling hot spots' or where a lot of waste goes to landfill? These are areas you might want to target first.

(3) Standardize bins and labelling

Some buildings might not have any bins. Also, the types of bins and how they are labelled might differ, which can be very confusing for people. Standardising the types of bins and how they are labelled across all buildings makes university recycling much easier.

As a first step, it helps if you examine buildings:

Are recycling bins installed?

Where they are placed?

How are they labelled?

Then develop a proposal with the waste coordinator or the director of facility services on how this could be improved.

(4) Set a university recycling target

A university-wide recycling target can help you to set a clear ambition on how much to improve recycling at your university. Without a target, it might be difficult to legitimize why money and time should be invested to improve recycling. Once you have a university-wide target, you can easier legitimise your projects, and hold the institution accountable if goals aren't met.

(5) Run a competition

You have a baseline, standardized bins, put up labels and set a target. But how do you improve recycling rates? A great way is to run competitions. Challenge buildings, faculties or dormitories to improve their recycling rate. Track progress and award winners with nice prizes.

For inspiration, check out RecycleMania or these 9 tips from Harvard University for running a recycling competition. You can also run Green Impact at your university and award points to staff teams for recycling actions that they implement.

(6) Run events to spread recycling ideas

You might already run events to raise awareness, educate and change behaviours. If not, here are some university recycling project ideas to get you started:

Run an upcycling workshop where students use waste to produce bags, wallets or other products

Organise a where students and staff bring their broken things and repair them

Carry out a Swap Shop or Swap Party where people bring their old clothes and exchange them

Collect scrap paper that has been printed on one side and then run an event where students bind papers together into new folders

Screen a sustainability documentary about waste and then discuss with people what could be done to improve recycling on campus

Train student volunteers as Recycling Heroes and have them stand next to bins in busy areas to explain people how to recycle their waste

(Not enough ideas? Explore our blogpost to get 10 more project ideas on how to engage students on the Sustainable Development Goals.)

(7) Change procurement contracts and practices

Procurement describes the process through which your university buys products and services on the market. The procurement department decides what furniture, food and electronics are bought, and how they are discarded.

Here are some university recycling ideas you could implement together with your procurement department:

Purchase second-hand furniture, furniture that lasts longer, or that is easier to recycle

Oblige suppliers of computers, mobile phones and monitors to take them back, once you want to get rid of them again

Order products in bulk or require less packaging

Make it part of the catering contract that the caterer strives to reduce food waste

(8) Address low-threshold areas

In addition to these events and procurement practices, you could act upon the following university recycling projects:

Introduce double-sided printing as the standard settings of printers

Install hand driers in restrooms, and remove hand towels

Ban water bottles entirely from campus and install refill stations

Collect e-Waste centrally and donate it to a charity

Deliver publications electronically, instead of printing them

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8 university recycling ideas to make your campus greener

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8 university recycling ideas to make your campus greener Recycling at your university achieves that less materials are burned, buried in the ground or washed away into the ocean. Instead, these resources can be re-used again to generate economic value and benefit

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İyi günler

Biz Sabancı Üniversitesi’nde okuyan 4 arkadaşız üniversitemize pet şişe karşılığında yemekhane kartına bakiye yükleyen pet şişe geri dönüşüm makinesi getirmek istiyoruz.

Fiyat konusunda bilgilendirir misiniz?

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Istanbul on Wednesday rolled out an alternative currency for commuters who need to top up their subway cards but are short of cash: recyclables.

The city is installing "reverse vending machines" at metro stations that allow passengers to add credit to their subway cards simply by inserting a plastic bottle or aluminum can into the machine.

Once a value has been assigned to the recyclables, the machine will crush, shred and sort the material.

The initiative aims to encourage recycling in the city of more than 15 million people, where recycling practices are scant or indifferent. But the alternative way of paying to travel is sure to be welcomed by commuters, as Turkey's currency has been hammered lately, falling to record lows against the dollar because of soaring inflation, economic mismanagement by the Turkish government and tensions with the United States.

This is how the vending machines would work: A 0.33-liter plastic bottle, for example, roughly equivalent to 11 ounces, would add 2 Turkish cents to a subway card, while a 0.5-liter bottle would add 3 cents and a 1.5-liter bottle would add 6 cents. (A subway journey costs 2.60 Turkish lira, about 40 United States cents; 100 Turkish cents, or kurus, make up 1 Turkish lira.)

A commuter would need around 28 1.5-liter bottles to buy a single-journey ticket. Aluminum cans are more valuable, returning 9 Turkish cents for a 0.5-liter can.

Istanbul's mayor, Mevlut Uysal, said the machines would track the number of bottles recycled by each passenger and reward those recycling the largest number of containers with free or discounted events such as theater tickets.

Turkey is Europe's third-largest producer of household and commercial waste, after Germany and France, and it is the worst in the region at recycling, according to a 2017 report by the consultancy group Expert Market, which is based in Britain.

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The new Istanbul subway machines, which will add credit to subway cards and crush, shred and sort recycled material. Credit Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

"Most households do not automatically recycle because they are unaware of the benefits to the environment, and others are just lazy," Elif Cengiz, a manager for the waste management project, called Zero Waste, said in a phone interview on Wednesday. "These new machines give people a direct incentive to recycle while educating them about the benefits of recycling."

Ms. Cengiz explained that the municipality had made waste management a priority in recent years because of rising concern over the damage that waste is causing to the environment.

The country's recycling drive has started to produce results, saving 30 million trees in 15 months since last June, Mustafa Ozturk, the under secretary for the Environment and Urban Planning Ministry, said.

More than half of all the plastic bottles in Turkey were recycled last year, according to the ministry, and more than 1.7 million tons of waste paper and cartons were recycled last year and in the first three months of 2018.

"This means we saved 24.6 million trees from being cut in 2017, and another 5.4 million in the first quarter of this year," Mr. Ozturk said in a statement. "The use of recycled material in production contributes to productivity and separate storage for paper waste also saves storage space and decreases waste collecting costs for local administrations."

The first reverse vending machines were installed at the I.T.U.-Ayazaga Station, and the municipality plans to install at least 100 more at 25 locations across the city, including at schools and universities, by the end of the year.

Along with paying for subway rides, the cards can be used to ride the bus and tram, and even to gain access to public toilets.

"I sometimes use the recycling cans at school, but usually I forget and just put my bottles in a regular bin," said Meltem Ozil, a philosophy student who uses the ITU metro station to get to university.

"I haven't seen the new machines yet," she said by phone, "but I'm sure all the students will use them to get some extra money. Who doesn't want a free ride?"

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Istanbul Vending Machines Offer Subway Credit for Recycled Bottles and Cans

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Istanbul on Wednesday rolled out an alternative currency for commuters who need to top up their subway cards but are short of cash: recyclables. The city is installing "reverse vending machines" at metro stations that allow passengers to add credit to their subway cards simply by inserting a plastic bottle or aluminum can into the machine.

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Aluminium

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Organic waste

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Textile

Wood

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