Recycled, Composted, and Landfilled
JMU recycles aluminum cans and paper products including newspapers, envelopes, paperboard, and corrugated boxes. Find more information here.
Through Aramark, JMU composts most of its food waste. Recycling, composting, and donating are sustainability measures used to divert waste from the landfill. The graph shows modest increase in both measures over the last decade until the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
JMU Policy 1701 covers sustainable procurement and includes several provisions aimed at preventing waste, ranging from buying products that are reusable, refillable, or contain post consumer waste to specifying reclaimed materials (such as stone and brick) be used in many specific circumstances.
Diversion rate
Diversion rate refers to the percentage of the total waste stream diverted away from the landfill via recycling, composting, or donating. Diversion rates had increased at JMU over the decade until the COVID-19 pandemic.
