2Green Tree Voluntary Certification System- (Short Term Goal)
Making a voluntary certification system can help educate interested businesses and showcase their commitment to sustainability to eco-conscious costumers. I have made a “Green Tree” certification program for office tenants interested in improving and quantifying their sustainability at UIC that could easily be adjusted for dining vendors based on community’s sustainability priorities. It’s a Microsoft Excel based certification program made up of four branches of heightened levels of sustainably. For each different action point you complete you receive a certain amount of points that goes towards a green tree branch certification level. These different levels could have positive …show more content…
For example, not using Styrofoam or serving food in compostable containers could be rated the highest with 3 points. Chicago Green Restaurant Association has some great tips for the most impactful sustainable areas for dining businesses to get started. Once a vendor becomes green tree certified they get a sticker decal for display, advertising their commitment to sustainability, which can help build a competitive spirit among vendors to help reduce their waste levels. This should be made available online to serve as a proxy for communities considering certification programs for their own local businesses. http://www.hamburgermarys.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/greenrestaurant.jpg
Action Items-
1. Calculate most effective point system to decrease waste levels and increase sustainability for dining businesses
2. Develop the excel spreadsheet based on the calculated point system
3. Being release of Green Tree Program to help vendors acclimate to new bans and increase overall sustainability.
4. Make available online to serve as a proxy for communities considering certification programs for their own local businesses.
Responsible …show more content…
For any landfill material the vendor would have to buy a sticker to place on their garbage bag for collectors to pick it up. Recycling and compost collection would remain free to encourage those practices.
One practice that would have to change, however, is the decentralized nature of trash disposal. A similar problem is apparent in communities that have multiple garbage collection servers, sometimes moving over to one that collects both residential and commercial waste streams can improve rates. Like San Francisco did with going with one provider for the whole city, Recology. All trash disposals would have to be collected by a building service worker, if they do not see a sticker they would not collect or they would record the offense and charge an appropriate fee. This represents an extra labor cost that the fee would have to accommodate for. The labor costs should not be excessive as many vendors only empty their trash minimally and building service trash collectors already pass by vendors to collect hallway streams. This is still a cost that needs to be calculated and entered
Making a voluntary certification system can help educate interested businesses and showcase their commitment to sustainability to eco-conscious costumers. I have made a “Green Tree” certification program for office tenants interested in improving and quantifying their sustainability at UIC that could easily be adjusted for dining vendors based on community’s sustainability priorities. It’s a Microsoft Excel based certification program made up of four branches of heightened levels of sustainably. For each different action point you complete you receive a certain amount of points that goes towards a green tree branch certification level. These different levels could have positive …show more content…
For example, not using Styrofoam or serving food in compostable containers could be rated the highest with 3 points. Chicago Green Restaurant Association has some great tips for the most impactful sustainable areas for dining businesses to get started. Once a vendor becomes green tree certified they get a sticker decal for display, advertising their commitment to sustainability, which can help build a competitive spirit among vendors to help reduce their waste levels. This should be made available online to serve as a proxy for communities considering certification programs for their own local businesses. http://www.hamburgermarys.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/greenrestaurant.jpg
Action Items-
1. Calculate most effective point system to decrease waste levels and increase sustainability for dining businesses
2. Develop the excel spreadsheet based on the calculated point system
3. Being release of Green Tree Program to help vendors acclimate to new bans and increase overall sustainability.
4. Make available online to serve as a proxy for communities considering certification programs for their own local businesses.
Responsible …show more content…
For any landfill material the vendor would have to buy a sticker to place on their garbage bag for collectors to pick it up. Recycling and compost collection would remain free to encourage those practices.
One practice that would have to change, however, is the decentralized nature of trash disposal. A similar problem is apparent in communities that have multiple garbage collection servers, sometimes moving over to one that collects both residential and commercial waste streams can improve rates. Like San Francisco did with going with one provider for the whole city, Recology. All trash disposals would have to be collected by a building service worker, if they do not see a sticker they would not collect or they would record the offense and charge an appropriate fee. This represents an extra labor cost that the fee would have to accommodate for. The labor costs should not be excessive as many vendors only empty their trash minimally and building service trash collectors already pass by vendors to collect hallway streams. This is still a cost that needs to be calculated and entered