Policies & Guidelines
Policies and Guidelines
NC State's waste reduction efforts are rooted in numerous data-driven studies and sustainability-related policies, procedures, and commitments.
Campus Commitments
- Wolfpack 2030: Powering the Extraordinary
- University-wide Sustainability Policy
- 2019 Waste Characterization Study
- 2015 Waste Characterization Study
- Campus Sustainability Standard Operating Procedures
- Sustainability Strategic Plan, which provides a five-year comprehensive roadmap for advancing campus sustainability. Every year tactics are updated and progress is reported in NC State’s Annual Sustainability Report
- Physical Master Plan
- Centennial Master Plan
- University Construction Guidelines
- All new construction built to LEED – Silver standards, announced spring 2008
- 2011 Self Service Recycling and Waste
Other Commitments
- University of North Carolina General Administration Sustainability Policy, - Universities shall develop policies and programs that
work toward achieving zero waste, 2009 - Commitment to Environmental Sustainability-Guiding Principles, 1999
N.C. Commitments
- Session Law 1989 (Senate Bill 111) – mandates state entities to recycle and reduce waste, 1989
- North Carolina General Statute 130A-309.10(f-m) – establishes disposal bans on a wide range of materials such as oil filters, plastic bottles and wooden pallets, 1983
- North Carolina General Statute 130A-310.60 – recycle fluorescent bulbs and thermostats generated in public buildings, 1983
- NC Executive Order 156 – state government environmental sustainability, reduction in solid waste and procurement of environmentally preferable purchasing, 1998
- NC General Statute 143-58.2 – purchase of products with recycled content, 1994
- NC General Statute 143-58.3 – purchase of recycled paper and paper products, 1994