The Trash Amendments apply to all municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4), industrial, and construction NPDES permittees
UCSC Policies and Procedures
Sustainable Practices Policy
The UC Sustainable Practices Policy (opens in new tab) establishes goals in nine areas of sustainable practices: green building, clean energy, transportation, climate protection, sustainable operations, waste reduction and recycling, environmentally preferable purchasing, sustainable foodservice, sustainable water systems.
UCOP Zero Waste by 2020 Policy
UCSC Zero Waste Team
UCSC has a team of dedicated students and staff who are encouraging and inspiring UCSC to reach the UC Office of the President’s appointed goal of zero waste by 2020. Through campus wide projects and outreach involving students, staff, and faculty alike, we seek to kindle awareness of waste reducing efforts across campus. While fostering this relatively new education of UCSC’s waste stream, we can succeed in reaching our Zero Waste by 2020 Goal.
UCSC Waste Management
Sustainability Department Campus Clean Up
This project was largely inspired by concerned students who wanted to take action to reduce litter and waste contamination found throughout the campus. The Campus Cleanup is one out of several projects designed and implemented by UCSC’s student-led Zero Waste Team to promote a culture of sustainability, to provide education about waste, and to motivate students to take environmental responsibility. Visit the Sustainability Office events calendar (opens in new tab) to stay up to date on local clean up days!
Smoke & Tobacco-Free Policy
In a letter, dated January 9th, 2012, President Yudof announced to all Chancellors that the University of California (UC), as a national leader in healthcare and environmental practices, that all UC campuses, buildings, and owned/operated properties will be smoke and tobacco-free environments effective January 2, 2014. Learn more about the Smoke & Tobacco-Free Policy.
Refuse and Recycling Program
Grounds Services maintains the campus and is the lead department managing campus recycling objectives to achieve Zero Waste. Grounds Services manages a substantial fleet and crew to self-haul all municipal solid waste off the campus to further day-to-day university operations. With a full-time staff of eleven employees, three front-loader trucks, three-box trucks, two roll-off trucks and one-back tipper truck; the Resource Recovery team is a nimble, effective asset in facilities maintenance. Resource Recovery also operates two roll off trucks that haul approximately 700 tons of food scrap and compostable materials from the dining halls, as well as construction debris, mixed metals, clean and dirty wood recovery, mixed plastics and other recoverable in bulk bin boxes.
Visit UCSC Waste Management to use the waste wizard tool. Lookup how to recycle a specific waste item in real-time, find the downloadable Recycle Coach app, and download recycling signage.
Grounds stormwater system operations and maintenance
Annual Planned Maintenance Program including inspection, monitoring, and servicing of the campus storm drainage system composed of catch basins, culverts, V ditches, Improved natural waterways, retention and detention structures, vaults, sediment traps, outfalls, infiltration structures, and other infrastructure. Also includes routine cleaning of debris from inlet areas, storm response cleaning of inlet areas and emergency incident response.
Landscape Management
Groundskeepers provide a variety of outdoor maintenance services. Primary duties include litter collection, hard surface cleaning and general garden maintenance. In addition to these tasks, our staff provides integrated pest management, minor irrigation repairs, turf maintenance, as well as small landscape design, construction and planting projects. Grounds Services also provides trash containers and clean up services for special events. Visit the UCSC Waste Management FAQ website to learn more about the waste management services they provide.
Physical Plant street/parking lot sweeping
Grounds Services operates a regenerative air street sweeper monthly on all campus roads with additional sweeping as needed following wind, storm, and seasonal leaf drop events.
TAPS daily parking lot maintenance
TAPS Operation and Maintenance Procedures. All parking lots on the main UCSC campus are maintained by daily removal of trash, and are blown at least ten times per year. Trash is removed manually. Leaf litter blown away from storm drains, and returned back to the native landscape to be used as soil cover.