The college has adopted centralized, three and four-stream sorting stations. This means that across all campuses you will notice sets of color-coded bins to dispose of your common waste items. You may notice the bin type may differ from campus to campus, but the bin colors are uniform.
We encourage you to take a moment and look at the signage to properly dispose of your waste in the correct colored stream. This is important to both limit the amount of waste being sent to landfill and reduce contamination in the recycling streams
If you are uncertain of where certain items should go or request a replacement set of bins for your department, please email sustainability@centennialcollege.ca.
How to use the Centralized Sorting System
Across Centennial Campuses you will notice four-stream centralized sorting systems (including organics waste) placed within cafeteria spaces and areas where food is more likely to be consumed; and three-stream centralized sorting systems throughout all other areas.
Place clean and dry paper products into the blue bins, including newspapers, cardboard, and fine paper. If the cardboard is large, please collapse the box and slide it behind the centralized sorting system unit for our custodial staff to pick up.
Place containers in the grey bin which includes coffee cups (cup, lid and sleeve), tin containers, aluminum containers, plastic bottles, plastic clam shell, cartons, juice boxes, glass bottles, and cans.
Place leftover food scraps, soiled paper, tissues/paper towel, and wooden cutlery in the green organics bin. Packaging marked Compostable is also accepted in the green organics bin, which is provided throughout Aramark food service locations, it looks like thick paper food containers. Packaging marked biodegradable is not accepted in the green organics bin and should be placed in the black landfill bin.
Place all other non-hazardous items in the black bin.
Please contact sustainability@centennialcollege.ca if you have packaging materials or waste and you don't know where it should be disposed or if you had a certain waste in high volume that you would like to investigate specialty recycling programs or alternative products to reduce the waste in question.