Waste management program at the universidad tecnologica de leon

Abstract

In Mexico a lot of educational institutions send their waste to places of final disposal, which generates a negative impact to the environment; especially when these places are not adequate and they do not comply with the current environmental legislation. This is why, at the Universidad Tecnologica de Leon (UTL) it has been implemented a System of Environmental Management; where 83% of the negative impact (environmental aspects) is related to waste generation. This resulted in the creation, and put into practice, of a Waste Management Program.