CASE STUDY: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)

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1 CASE STUDY: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) Location The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a world-renowned centre for plant science and education located in the heart of Edinburgh. A total of 707,244 visitors were recorded in an increase of more than 21 per cent on the previous year. Rationale RBGE has an ethos of good environmental practice and sustainability. The Environmental Policy, produced in 2004, made a commitment to implement the waste hierarchy wherever possible. The installation of Recycling on the Go (RotG) units was identified as a solution to both increase recycling and educate visitors about resource management. This new approach to waste management in the gardens was also seen as necessary in light of the annual increases being seen in footfall. Scheme overview Recycling units are in place outside in busy areas of the garden. Outside recycling units were installed to replace the existing 60 litter bins around the site. The new outside units include provision for residual waste alongside recyclates. There is also paper cup recycling located externally at one of the cafes. Planning Catering contractors are asked to respect the RBGE s policy of using environmentally-friendly and sustainable packaging as part of their contract. Contractors must use cardboard boxes, supply cold drinks in cans and use specified cups for hot drinks. Decisions on the types of waste streams to collect were based on the amount of waste generated, consultation with the cleaning staff and assessment of the products on sale on site. The waste types found to be most commonly occurring were those used in packaging from on-site food outlets. The RotG containers were selected to enable collection of these materials alongside residual waste. When installing the outdoor units, the RBGE had to consider which design would be squirrel, fox, pigeon and weather proof, contain large volumes of waste, could be easily maintained by cleaning staff and be eye catching yet appropriate to its setting. A range of containers were considered and rejected on the basis of weatherproofing and size before the final containers were selected. Paper cups were found to make up the bulk of the East Gate s coffee bar waste. Discussions took place with Zero Waste Scotland to find a suitable container to segregate paper cups, along with the plastic lids and waste liquids. Discussions were also held with the RBGE s waste contractors to identify collections for the materials segregated. Changeworks agreed to recycle the cups, as well as the plastic lids, alongside their existing the paper and cardboard collection. page 1

2 Outdoor containers The outdoor RotG containers are located at busy spots near cafes, entrances to buildings, benches and toilets (see Figure 1 for example). Table 1 gives technical details for the outdoor containers. Outdoor cup recycling container The recycling unit is located externally next to a café area (see Figure 2 for example). Table 2 gives technical details for the container. Figure 1 RBGE outdoor RotG containers located at a busy area of the garden. Figure 2 RBGE outdoor paper cup RotG container. Table 1 Details of outdoor RotG containers Number of containers Type of container Container capacity (litres) Make of container Seven Cost per bin 900 Waste streams segregated Special features Metal 4 sided unit, 4 hinge flaps, accommodates four wheelie bins 4 x 240 litre wheelie bin Broxap BX45 SEPR8 Cans, plastic bottles and general waste Signage panel with custom graphics Table 2 Details of outdoor paper cup RotG containers Number of containers 1 Type of container Container capacity (litres) Make of container Cost per bin 750 Waste streams segregated Special features Single sided, 2 hinge flaps, receptacle for liquids 3 x 60 litre liners Broxap single-sided SEPR8-60-S3 Paper cups, plastic lids, waste liquids Shallow liquid reservoir. Any liquid collected disposed of via the drainage system. page 2

3 Signage The Visitor Services Department designed signage for both the indoor and outdoor bins. Colours and images are consistent across the site. The signage has recently been updated to be consistent with the Recycle Now iconography. Capital expenditure There are occasional additional maintenance costs for replacement, extra units and signage. Collection and storage arrangements The contract in place requires the cleaning staff to keep the recycling containers maintained to a high standard. Staff keep the containers and area around the containers clean and empty when required. Generally the containers are checked and emptied once a day during the winter and are checked up to three times a day during the summer. RBGE staff can report any issues to the Support Services Manager. Liner bags are lifted from the wheelie bins manually and moved to the storage yard using an electronic buggy. In the storage area the materials are collected in larger storage containers for subsequent removal by the waste contractor. The waste contractor collects material directly from the storage yard on a fortnightly basis. Monitoring and communication RBGE have requested monthly reports from the waste contractor on the kilograms of material collected and the tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent diverted as a result of recycling the material. The waste contractor provides total figures for recycling from the Garden including office recycling and RotG. RBGE will be introducing a monitoring system for the bins to gain greater understanding of much each of the containers is used. This activity will also provide data on the volume of recycling directly relating to RotG. Anecdotally, RBGE understands that three of the recycling containers are used more than the others in the gardens. These containers are located at the busiest hubs of the garden: the educational area, next to the terrace café and at the visitor centre. Education staff encourage visiting groups to use the recycling bins and identify where they are marked on the visitors map. The Primary Education Officer, who works directly with school groups, works with the school children to teach them about recycling and encourages them to segregate their packed lunches. Performance and contamination RBGE estimate that their current recycling rate is approximately 30%; future planned monitoring will provide more robust data on performance. Some contamination is being found, particularly in the bin used for the paper cup recycling. Cleaners help reduce contamination by segregating the waste further behind the scenes where a small amount of contamination is found. If a bag has become very contaminated the whole bag is placed with the residual waste. Lessons learned and future steps The Garden has found that it is important to install adequate capacity and to regularly review capacity to ensure it is sufficient. Initially four recycling units were installed to replace the site litter bins. When litter levels started to rise the number of recycling hubs was increased to seven. RBGE are introducing processes to gather data on the use of the recycling containers and the tonnage diverted to recycling. This data can be used to monitor the effectiveness of the facilities and improvements made to the overall recycling rate. In addition, information can be provided to visitors about recycling levels, the part that they play in helping to improve this and how it ties in with the Garden s environmental policy. page 3

4 Additional signage and information on recycling may be provided in the future to further promote the services to visitors. It is important for RBGE to balance the benefits of information provision against the facilities becoming too visually intrusive. In the future recycling containers will be introduced internally at the visitor centre to expand provision of facilities at the busiest part of the gardens. Based on experience with outdoor bins there is a recognised requirement for the bins to be high quality, long lasting and visually appealing and appropriate in the context of the visitor centre. Acknowledgements With thanks to Kate Hughes, Horticultural Project Officer Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. RBGE have introduced RotG to support their Environmental Policy and educate visitors about resource management. This case study describes the RotG at the RBGE including an overview of the scheme, the rationale, planning stages and container details. page 4

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