Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 38.61
Liaison Douglas Alexander
Submission Date Feb. 19, 2012
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STARS v1.1

Old Dominion University
OP-21: Hazardous Waste Management

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Krista Harrell-Blair
ODU Sustainability Intern for STARS
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

A brief description of steps taken to reduce hazardous, special (e.g. coal ash), universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:

Non-hazardous products, materials and chemicals are purchased to the maximum degree feasible in all areas of unversity operations. Unwanted hazardous chemicals are segregated in to categories to be recycled and/or bulked for use as fuel.


A brief description of how the institution safely disposes of hazardous, universal, and non-regulated chemical waste:

Contracts with licensed waste disposal companies have been established with ODU and other Virginia state universities through which our wastes(hazardous, universal, and non-regulated) , that cannot be recovered, are disposed of economically and ecologically.


The website URL where information about hazardous materials management is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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