Food waste recycling

All kinds of raw and cooked food waste can be put in these bins, plus tea bags and coffee grounds.

It gets taken to an Anaerobic Digestion facility, which is different to a composting facility. Not all types of raw food are allowed to be sent to composting facilities.

Compostable bags do not degrade quickly enough within an Anaerobic Digestion facility, so have to be removed at the start of the process, along with all other types of packaging and bags, which are then sent for incinerate to generate electricity. Clear plastic bags are less likely to leak when put into recycling bins on campus, compared to using compostable bags. It is easier to see contamination in clear plastic bags than in opaque compostable bags.

• LG floor – café
• UG floor – main foyer

• Ground floor foyer
• First floor foyer

• Ground floor – Foyer
• 1^st Floor – seating area

As part of recycling stations

• Ground floor – foyer outside the café
• Ground floor – tower, outside lift
• 1^st Floor – foyer at Van Emden lecture theatre
• 1^st Floor – tower staircase, in seating area
• 2^nd Floor – outside SACLL (room 230)
• 2^nd Floor – tower staircase, in seating area
• 3^rd Floor – tower staircase, in seating area

Student Common Room

Link Corridor to Chemistry

• Ground floor – Harry Pitt reception
• 1st Floor – Meteorology, inside 1L61
• 1^st Floor – Meteorology common room/tea point
• 1^st Floor – Harry Pitt student common room 155
• 1^st Floor – Meteorology, outside room 1U12
• 2^nd Floor – Psychology, outside room 2U04

Ground floor - next to café & Cole Museum

• Ground floor – next to café
• Ground floorr – next to Lecture Theatre
• Ground floor – opposite seating/next to staircase
• 1^st Floor – study space seating
• 2^nd floor – study space seating

Ground floor foyer

• Usually opposite cafe counter - may be moved during events
• In open seating area

• LG floor outside Slingo and Ditchburn lecture theatres
• Ground floor – JJ Thompson support hub
• Ground floor – Maths building, near IT/DTS link corridor
• 2nd Floor – JJ Thompson print room 206

Various locations across the floors; and at the in-built recycling points in the Café

• Ground floor by Café
• Upstairs in large lecture/workshop space

MERL have their own scheme in place; please ask staff for assistance

• L14 Student study space
• The Dairy will accept cups which were sold from their café - hand your cup back to staff for recycling
• L16 foyer/reception
• L22 main entrance
• L33 main entrance

Ground floor near kitchenette/classroom

Main entrance foyer, near vending machines

Ground floor near staircase

Ground floor main entrance hall

• Foyer (by main entrance)
• Foyer (in middle of open area

Near built in recycling stations

Ground floor, next to water fountain

Ground floor foyer

Various locations inc. in Starbucks Café

In Café at main entrance

At recycling station

In Staff Common Room Lounge, on 1st floor

Outside Department of Art office

Far end of corridor near Student Study space

Main foyer

Near room 126

At recycling station in eatery

Ground floor foyer, near vending machines/Security office