The Time Warner Center (TWC), designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill,marks the southwest corner of Central Park with two 44-story towers rising from a 10-story podium. To handle the high volumes and diverse streams of waste flowing through the 2.8 million sq ft operation, the loading dock includes storage space and four compactor containers, one […]
In Columbia University’s John Jay dining hall students and faculty areserved on plates (without trays) and provided with reusable and compostabledishware. Trayless dining limits portion sizes, which means lessuneaten food is thrown away. When diners have finished eating, theyplace their dirty dishes and uneaten food on a dish carousel. See Case Study pdf.
Our Tampines Hub (OTH), is a mixed-use facility serving the new eco-focused neighborhood of Tampines, with over 250,000 residents. With a supermarket, 30 eateries and a 24-hour hawker center with 42 stalls and 800 seats, it generates a significant amount of food waste. Every day 1.4 tonnes (1.6 tons) of food waste, including expired foods […]
TheMART is owned and operated by Vornado Realty Trust. To maximize diversion rates, Vornado has designed shared building spaces and waste storage areas to promote proper separation of recyclables and organics. Building staff use tilt trucks to move office tenants’ waste and recycling materials through service corridors to a loading dock. Retail tenants transport their […]
For buildings that house diverse businesses, it can be a challenge to promote building-wide, sustainable waste management. Starrett Lehigh— a 2.3 million sq ft commercial building, is doing this through strong tenant collaboration and innovation.An eco-team has been established at the block-wide building to reduce waste generation and encourage the separation of organic waste by […]
The Park Slope Food Coop is a consumer-owned grocery store sellinga million dollars worth of groceries a week—more than double the persq ft sales of an average Whole Foods. Yet it occupies a surprisingly small space. Over the years, the co-op has instituted a number of initiatives to reduce waste. Much of the food, from […]
Etsy’s Brooklyn headquarters occupies 200,000 sq ft of a nine-story building constructed in 1924. The renovation, by Gensler, was designed to be zero waste within both its construction and its ongoing operations. Etsy formalized its zero waste vision in 2017 by publicly announcing their commitment to run zero waste operations globally by 2020. Since then, […]
Every location of the Italian marketplace Eataly, which offers groceries, restaurants and cooking demos, was designed to ease the separation of organics from trash and recycling, thereby allowing waste to move efficiently through the building. And recently, the chain embarked on a plan to optimize recycling at all its sites, starting in Boston. See Case […]