Business Chief USA – August 2019

Campus Sustainability, Kayla Blok,

is that sustainability should be

integrated into all projects, research

and teaching. It is also central to

procurement, with all contracts and

purchases over $100,000 required

to be considered from a sustainability

point of view. “Whenever we go out

to tender we have questions and

requirements for suppliers, and

I support multiple request for proposal

(RFP) committees by advising on how

that should be done. When we under-

take a project, are our staff seeing their

work through a sustainability lens?

When our students graduate are they

leaving with a holistic understanding

of sustainability? These are the type of

questions we are asking.”

THE ROAD TO ZERO WASTE

It is never going to be possible to

recycle 100% of waste, but by

adopting ‘circular economy’ practices

SFU is heading towards a goal of 10%

waste minimization and 90% diversion

from landfill. SFU started its zero

waste journey in 2012 at a time when it

had only a two-stream waste diversion

system and most items were being

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AUGUST 2019

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY