RECYCLE PRINT CARTRIDGES

By the end of this term, our groupmates have been interviewed with many people in the school services.

Interview with Lancelot Straun, Manger of the plant operations and security
--By Carrie (C-Carrie, S-Lancelot Straun)

C: How much waste does OCAD produce every week?
S: I can't tell you the exact amount at the moment, but we do provide the Waste Audit on the annual report. It is hard to say that, because it is varied everyday due to if there is an assignment period of the student, then there would be a lot of waste produced in the Studio or workshop, especially during the peak time of assignment and exhibitions.

C: How do you deal with the garbage?
S: We ask different kinds of companies for different sectors for the garbage. We use Turtle Island (recycling), Canadian Waste Management (Garbage), and we also employ some people to do the house keeping, such as clean up and collect the garbage bin and the recycle bin. You know that it cost money to get the garbage offside. As the students do projects with huge amount of materials which aware of products, but after they finished their assignments, there will is a lot of waste left behind. It also cost money to get them away. Especially in March and April, there would be a huge amount of scrap materials produced due to it is the end of the term, and also there is not enough space to store all the stuff, then we have to ask people to clean up all the garbage which would cost money again.

C: How much is the recycling rate?
S: I am not able to tell you that again, because I don't have any correlated materials with me right now. We do request information of the lift rate from the waste management company, and also we are planning to set up a recycling center which would be set up in 5 years hopefully. Then there would be more kinds of materials to be recycled, more space to store the garbage and waste, and also more people would be engaged to this recycle movement. By the time, we can also set up a place for recycle the print cartridges.

C: How many garbage bins and recycle bins in the school?
S: I am not too sure on this question. I can tell you that there were 51 recycling bins in 100, MacCaul St, but we begin to lost blue bins and the lids. At the end of the term, we just realized that there are couples of recycle bins have gone, I think there are some students use them to carry their models away, but I have no idea why the lids have gone. As the price of the bin is going up every year, and it is going to extra charge if we order the lid separately. We started to launch the new designed recycle bins, which are fixed in one place and without the lid, and then no one is going to move them away. We use function languages and posters to promote our new bins, and trying to make clients from it. We use the brown bag to collect the leaves from the park, green garbage bags to recycle the paints, e-mail print outs, and class hand outs.

C: How many empty print cartridges do we produce every week/ month?
And how do you deal with them normally?
S: Regards on this question, I am not in charge in this, but you should probably ask Mark Goffin who is the director of the printing service. Personally, I think more and more people have their own printer in their office is such a waste; they waste the energy, papers, and cartridges as well.

Proposal:
Basically we are having a proposal with an idea of recycling empty print cartridges. The goal we want to achieve is get all the people in OCAD involved into this project to help OCAD to improve its green grade.

1. Normally there are a lot of people do not know how to deal with the empty print cartridges, and they just throw them into the garbage, that would cause pollution in our environment.
2. Therefore, we are thinking to let OCAD to help people to recycle their empty print cartridges. OCAD set up some collection points on campus.
3.Students and staffs can bring their empty cartridges from home to the collection point.
4. The school can help them to recycle the cartridges accompanied with their own empty cartridges.

C: How do you think about this idea? Do you have any comments of it?
S: Yes, I think it's a good idea and also workable. It would be great if the school is able to do this. You know that there is a company you can ask about if they do help campus to recycle the empty print cartridge, or may be they will provide a bin for collecting the cartridges. As OCAD has a long term contract with them, and they are the one to help OCAD to recycle the waste. If they are going to extra for recycling the print cartridges particularly, then tell me how much they going to charge, and we will think about that we will go it or not.

Contact with this person: Roseanne Kool
Turtle Island Recycling Company
Tel: 416-406-2040 (Canada)
1800-224-5325 (International)



Printing Cartridge Recycling Report---------------Campus services interview Group: Tony. Shi

New building third floor printing shop manager: Mark
Shuai Tony .Shi

T: Hello Mark I just want to ask some questions about the printing cartridge recycling.
M: For Sure.

T: How do you commonly recycle the printing cartridge?
M: Generally speaking, I do not have any idea bout the recycling property. This is school’s responsibility. I usually put the trash and cartridge in the recycle bin and school would handle this.

T: Okay, and where is the recycle bin?
M: At the hallway, have you seen the bin before?
T: yes.

T: Did you classify the printing cartridge with paper and other properties?
M: Yes. But I just put them in the bin and that is my job. Basically, I do not have any information about the process of how the campus service solve recycling problem. I put paper in the large bin and put the cartridge in the plastic and glass recycle bin.

T: Is here any specific bin for printing cartridge recycling only?
M: Absolutely no idea. But I don't know any one.

T: But do you know where are the cartridge and paper trash go?
M: The stuff is going to mail office.
M: Mail office is care of the cartridge and paper recycling.

T: Do you pay for the printing cartridge recycling?
M: Me? Not at all. That is the mail room’s responsibility. My job is focus on the students’ printing activities and supplement.

T: Do you know any campus program about the cartridge recycling?
M: Yes. There is. But you better ask the mail office. I think there is nothing necessarily about printing cartridge recycling. Some printing company noticed that if people mail the cartridge box back to the company, they could pay for it. But mostly people they are no interesting to do this. I just put them into the bin. May be mailing office send them to some where else. Because I know the office manager did call the recycling office.

T: I have a group assignment here. We suggest putting a specific recycle bin aim at printing cartridge. As I know it can be refill. So can we suppose to design a bin and put it at the hallway?
M: Up to you. If students will put their cartridge in the bin, you can try this plan.
T: Okay, Thanks

Marlene: New building second floor Mail office manger
Shuai Tony. Shi

T: Hello. Sorry to disturb you. I just want to ask few questions about the printing cartridge recycling matter
ML: Okay.

T: .How do you handle the cartridge recycle?
ML: I call the company named Tecnolaser which is responses on OCAD printing cartridge and paper trash.

T: Do you pay for the company?
ML: Me? No. Personally, I don’t. But OCAD pay the annual fee for them. Monthly payment is more expensive.

T: I have a connection. This is a printing company. They have a service about the printing cards purchase. If you purchase the printing cards from them who will freely recycle the campus printing cartridge and paper. Will you do that?
ML: You know what? I do not pay for this, so it doesn’t matter for me. And I think campus service build trust and credits with the original recycle company. The campus pays yearly, so the company increases the discount year by year. I do not think OCAD is really interesting in your plan. At less, I don’t.

T: Okay. But where does the company mail the cartridge?
ML: Globalization. Yes. The company mail to United States, Europe or somewhere else.

T: Okay. I designed a recycle bin for printing cartridge. I want assist the campus aim at cartridge recycling. The design functional as a bin embrace students’ individual printing cartridge and school’s cartridge. So can I put the bin at printing shop of this office?
ML: Yes. Normally, Students handle the cartridge recycling problem by themselves. We don’t have a program or service just for printing cartridge recycle. The plan is good.
T: Okay and thanks for your help.