Waste Diversion Infrastructure

Entire A-Building

"You will notice four-stream waste sorting receptacles positioned in areas where food is most likely to be consumed, equipped with an organics stream bin," says Samantha Corway, Sustainability Manager, Centennial College. "In the coming year this program will be expanded to more areas across campuses and is present currently in all cafeteria spaces at all five campuses. We may not think a lot about what happens to the waste we throw out, but when our organic waste ends up in landfill it generates methane gas, which has more than 80 times the warming power than CO2; with at least 25% of today’s global warming being driven by methane from human actions."