AASTMT underscores its commitment to embedding social and environmental responsibilities into its core operations. By prioritizing sustainable procurement practices, the institution not only enhances its environmental stewardship but also sets an example for other organizations to follow. This holistic approach ensures that sustainability is not an isolated effort but an integral part of AASTMT's organizational culture, fostering long-term positive impacts on the environment, society, and economy. All policies related to this indicator are represented under title “Ethical Sourcing of Food and Supplies”, and the Policy statement in point number 5.
The huge pressure on environmental resources, increasing greenhouse gases, unprecedented rates of CO2 emissions, rising sea levels, pollution, overpopulation, resource waste, and land degradation affect the current and future generations. They face surmountable challenges due to climate change, resource scarcity, waste management, and insufficient recycling practices. Recycling is a cornerstone of addressing these issues, as it reduces resource waste, alleviates pollution, and contributes to managing land degradation. AASTMT has established policies to achieve sustainable development goals, helping uphold the University's Environmental Change and Social Duty Policy and keep the surrounding society and the community in good health and safe.
The policy places strong emphasis on recycling to lessen negative natural effects emerging from our era of waste raising, looking to foresee, reuse, recycle, repurpose, and decrease waste from our activity. Recycling is further integrated into the Policy, which likewise plans to guarantee that AASTMT oversees waste and recycling issues as per the counteraction of contamination and consistent with natural enactment. Recycling serves as a key strategy in fulfilling these commitments and creating a sustainable environment for all.
It is the responsibility of all employees, students, and contractors working to handle, deal with, and store all kinds of waste, including hazardous materials and other types of waste, with a strong emphasis on recycling. Recycling should be a priority at every level of waste management, ensuring that materials are sorted, processed, and reused whenever possible. In addition, assign the person who is responsible for these materials to oversee their recycling and disposal in the most suitable and environmentally friendly way. Recycling hazardous materials and other types of waste not only minimizes environmental harm but also aligns with sustainable waste management practices. Recycling initiatives should be integrated into all handling and disposal processes to support the university’s environmental goals.
The AASTMT policy considers end-of-life disposal costs and environmental impacts when making acquisition decisions involving the construction of new or renovated facilities.
AASTMT receives the 'waste order' of Prevention, reuse, reusing, and other recuperation and removal. AASTMT executes cycles, methods, and activities that guarantee consistency with ecological enactment and best practice, to lessen the general waste produced and forestall waste creation at every possible opportunity. Moreover, AASTMT is committed to measuring and weighing the amount of waste generated to track the waste and to find the best methods to reduce or recycle it.
The Waste Treatment Progressive System and Stages Incorporates:
Prevention
RE-USE
Recycle
Disposal
Ethical Sourcing of Food and Supplies
AASTMT is seeking to reduce food waste as much as we can through using food preservation methods and vermicomposting practices. The university is committed to delivering healthy food for all parties in the university including food on Campus, Residences, and employees whether vegetarian or others. AASTMT makes sure that the food is available at each level to guarantee healthy food for ASTMT’s stakeholders. However, food waste is still a problem for AASTMT. Therefore, AASTMT is applying the following procedures to use the waste of food in an appropriate way:
The AASTMT seeks to implement ethical and sustainable practices on all of its campuses. Therefore, the AASTMT has taken crucial measures to implement these practices, such as ecological practices and corporate social responsibility. Through the exchange of information within the Academy's supply chain, these food ethics and practices enable AASTMT to ensure the transparency of information about all suppliers.
To accomplish supply chain transparency, one of the primary goals of AASTMT is to identify the most reliable and reputable partners who share the same ethical practices, objectives, and data. To accomplish ethical and sustainable practices, the first step is to identify the most suitable suppliers.
The interaction with suppliers is the second step to keep secure relationships between partners and to reduce the risk. AASTMT is seeking to build a platform and application to increase communication and share important information. That would give the suppliers and partners access to the internal systems they need based on their roles within the ecosystem, sustainability practices, and the food ethics of AASTMT.
Through utilizing new technologies such as block chain technology, AASTMT plays a crucial role in facilitating the monitoring and tracing of the origin of food. It allows the AASTMT to trace the origin of food and ensure its safe delivery to campuses.
AASTMT is monitoring the overall processes between its partners to guarantee healthy and sustainable food for students, staff, and Residents. Based on this monitoring, errors must be fixed, and corrective action must be taken.
AASTMT guarantees that we are conforming to guidelines, enactment, and best practices to limit the danger of prompt and future contamination or mischief to wellbeing when completing operational exercises.
Waste ought to be forestalled or limited at every possible opportunity. AASTMT empowers staff, Students, and employers to limit plastic and cartoon waste, in addition to increasing the awareness about the method to minimize disposable items.
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Policy title: | Consumption and Recycling Policy |
Date created: | May 2019 |
Approving body: | SDG workforce committee |
Version: | 4 |
Last review date | 2024 |
Next review date: | 2025 |
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Approval Signature | Dean of Scientific Research and Innovation |
You can read our Consumption and Recycling Policy on AASTMT website.
More activities are applied and practiced in the AASTMT.
Part of its continuous dedication to sustainable waste management and recycling techniques, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) is aggressively investigating vermicomposting. By improving soil quality, increasing drainage, and lowering soil erosion, vermicomposting—a green method—transforms organic waste into nutrient-rich compost so supporting sustainable development. Apart from improving food preservation and crop yields, this natural composting technique is quite important in reducing methane and CO₂ emissions from organic waste. In line with sustainable development objectives, AASTMT keeps using vermicomposting over its campuses to generate fertilizers for agricultural areas, so supporting environmentally friendly waste disposal and environmentally conscious practices.
The Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) of AASTMT on the main campus supervises this two-path recycling system. Waste is gathered and placed in earthworm composting pens in the first path, where it is transformed into vermicompost—then applied as organic fertilizer for landscaping. With some of the worms used in the fish culture operations of the ARC, the worms generated by this process also grow in number. The second route treats the waste to create soluble fertilizers and biogas. For several ARC operations, this biogas provides a substitute energy source that emphasizes AASTMT's creative approach to waste management and sustainable energy. By means of continuous vermicomposting programs, AASTMT keeps encouraging environmentally friendly behaviors and transforms waste into valuable resources for landscaping and agricultural operations over its campuses.
The Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) has successfully implemented a sustainable, self-sufficient recycling system on its campus, aimed at transforming organic food waste and recyclable materials into valuable products that contribute to reducing campus operating expenses. The system specifically targets organic food waste, plastic tableware, and aluminum cans, converting these waste streams into economically beneficial outputs. Through this project, AASTMT produces a portion of its disposable plastic tableware on-site using a plastic injection machine located at the Integrated Service Center (ISC). Additionally, the project lowers costs for campus fertilizers and provides raw aluminum materials for students' graduation projects. To achieve these goals, AASTMT has developed and integrated several recycling units, including a portable compost unit to create organic fertilizer, molds for the plastic injection machine, a unit for washing, drying, and disinfecting plastic tableware, an aluminum can crusher to compact cans before melting, and an electrical furnace for producing aluminum bars. The project continues to operate on campus, showcasing AASTMT's commitment to sustainable practices and efficient waste management.
AASTMT Campus Smart Recycling System
AASTMT committed that contracted vendors adhere to applicable regulations in order to promote responsible consumption and production. This practice is in line with the promises made in the AASTMT Sustainable Development Strategy and the Sustainability Policy Statement and the strategy that goes with it. These policies try to make sure that the AASTMT's social and environmental duties are considered in every part of its work.
You can read our Consumption and Recycling Policy statement on AASTMT website
