Solid Waste Interview

Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a

wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant,
or air pollution control facility and other discarded
materials including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained
gaseous material, resulting from industrial, commercial,
mining and agricultural operations, and from community
activities, but does not include solid or dissolved materials
in domestic sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in
irrigation return flows. www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/8732.htm
Who is responsible for dealing with waste management and coming
up with new ideas for preventing waste, is there a written policy?
The hotel leaves their waste with a company and they are
responsible for organizing all of the rubbish.
What action has the hotel taken in the past three years to reduce
waste management? We have started using cups in the restaurant
that are recyclable. We also have red, blue, black and green bins
which all represents items that can be recycled like paper, plastic
and glass.
Where does the hotel leave their waste, do you arrange the
collection of the waste or is dealt with by municipal services? We
leave it to the municipal services to take care of it.
Are you aware of how is the waste dealt with? They take the
garbage and they will separate the different recyclable goods from
non-recyclable and they manage to recycle the recyclable goods
and take the rest to the garbage sites.
Why do you think it is important to implement a recycling system in
the hotel? Not sure
Is there a five year management plan to implement a recycling
system? Not sure