Reducing Our Waste on Campus
Explore the ways we help students, staff and faculty reduce waste on campus.
Reducing and Recycling
Reusable Container Programs
Humber’s North and Lakeshore campuses offer a unique reusable container program.
Low Waste Event Spaces
These spaces aim to reduce waste output across campus and align with the federal government’s Single-Use Plastics Prohibition Regulation, keeping unnecessary plastics from going to landfill.
Sorting Stations
Humber uses centralized four-stream sorting stations to segment waste on campus and provides an acceptable waste criteria list for the community to reference.
Additional Recycling Programs
Textbooks for Change
Textbooks that are less than 15 years old can be dropped off at one of our on-campus locations:
North Campus:
- KX Building: outside Humber Student Federation – HSF
- K107: outside the School of Media Studies and Information Technology office
- E205: outside The Business School office
- LRC: Math Centre – 3rd floor
Lakeshore Campus:
- A Building: near The Music Office and Liberal Arts and Sciences
- H Building: Main Floor - across from the International Office
- H Building: 2nd Floor near the Business School
- L Building: 3rd Floor
- Annex/Humber Centre for Justice Leadership – Main Floor near Security
PPE Recycling
PPE items can be recycled on campus in locations near Nursing and Culinary classrooms.
Battery Recycling
Humber/UofGH offers battery-recycling bin locations:
- North Campus: Outside of IGNITE office at KX202
- University of Guelph-Humber: 2nd floor by room GH214
- Lakeshore Campus: 2nd floor of L building cafeteria next to elevator doors, 1st floor of Welcome Centre in front of Registrar's Office, & 1st floor BIRM by Tim Hortons
- International Graduate School: 4th floor by room 410
Pen Recycling
Humber recycles all kinds of writing instruments (pens and pen caps, mechanical pencils, markers and marker caps, including dry-erase and permanent, all brands and any colour, etc.) at drop-off locations on campus for appropriate recycling:
- North: Just outside of IGNITE, KX202
- Lakeshore: Next to the elevator, L-building (2nd floor) and 1st floor of H building by the main entrance
- International Graduate School: 4th floor, room 410
Humber staff and faculty are provided with a Pen Collection Box for their offices. Please contact sustainability@humber.ca for more information.
