Florence Hale

Diving into Imperial’s Waste: What We Found

At 900 tonnes each year, almost half of South Kensington campus’ waste is ‘general waste’. This waste stream is collected daily and taken by lorry to an energy from waste (EfW) plant in Southwark where it is incinerated. Although the energy from burning this waste is returned to the grid,

Diving into Imperial’s waste

South Kensington campus generated nearly 2,000 tonnes of waste last year. This includes recyclable materials like paper from printing, glass, plastic, card, and cans from packaging. It also includes food waste which is sent for anaerobic digestion. There is waste from labs, namely clinical and chemical waste, and skip