This document discusses sustainable waste management and green building standards. It explains that sustainable development aims to meet present needs without compromising future generations. Sustainable waste management seeks to reduce waste streams and manage resources effectively through recovery, recycling, reuse, and minimization. The LEED green building rating system evaluates buildings' environmental performance across nine categories including materials and resources. Within LEED, waste management credits address construction waste, materials reuse, auditing waste streams, and managing consumables and durable goods. The document provides examples of sustainable waste policies and conducting waste stream audits to establish baselines and find diversion opportunities.

1. Green Building and Waste
Management

2. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs
of present without compromising the needs of future
generation to meet their own needs.
Sustainability

3. Sustainable Waste Management
• Growing in waste generation & disposal rates will increase
pressures on the environment.
• Sustainable waste management aims to address these long
term pressures through:
Recovery
Recycling
Reuse of resources
minimization of waste streams
management of resources in an environmentally
sound and economically effective manner

4. Concepts of sustainable building and
LEED requirements
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a rating
system devised by the United States Green Building Council
(USGBC) to evaluate the environmental performance of a
building and encourage market transformation towards
sustainable design.

5. 1. Integrative process
2. Location and transportation
3. Sustainable sites
4. Water efficiency
5. Energy and atmosphere
6. Materials and resources
7. Indoor environmental quality
8. Innovation
9. Regional priority
The system is credit-based, allowing projects
to earn points cross nine basic areas that
address key aspects of green buildings

6. Based on the number of points achieved, a
project earns one of four LEED rating levels

7. Waste Management In LEED
Buildings
• Storage and Collection of Recyclables
• Construction Waste Management
• Materials Reuse
• Waste Stream Audit
• Ongoing Consumables
• Durable Goods
• Facility Alterations and Additions

8. solid waste management policy
Intent
To reduce the amount of waste and toxins that are hauled to and
disposed of in landfills or incineration facilities.
Requirements:
Have in place a solid waste management
policy addressing the requirements of the
waste management credits as mentioned
bellow.

9. • MR Credit 7: Solid Waste Management—Ongoing
Consumables
• MR Credit 8: Solid Waste Management—Durable Goods.
• MR Credit 9: Solid Waste Management—Facility Alterations
and Additions.
• recycling of all mercury-containing lamps.

10. Waste Stream Audit
Intent
To facilitate the reduction of ongoing waste and toxins generated
by building occupants and building operations that are hauled to
and disposed of in landfills or incineration facilities.
Requirements
• Conduct a waste stream audit of the building’s entire ongoing
consumables waste stream.
• Use the audit’s results to establish a baseline that identifies
the types of waste making up the waste stream and the
amounts of each type
• Identify opportunities for increased recycling and waste
diversion.

11. Example s of all over the world
Arizona State University new building for the Packard Foundation

12. New U.S. Port of Entry in Minnesota

13. Climate Commitment, Ithaca College