Building User Guide

Waste Management

A significant portion of a building’s carbon footprint is created by tenant waste so we take waste management very seriously in the Geyser Building. A dedicated waste management room is accessed from Bath Street and it has automatic controlled doors which require access control.

There is also a dedicated worm farm in basement for compost waste, this means that a portion of our waste does not need to be transported and contributes to one less truck on our roads.

Geyser is striving towards being a zero landfill building and each tenancy has Method Bins to separate waste and divert as much from landfill as is possible.

The Environment Champion is responsible for educating colleagues and cleaners on waste education processes.

Waste is split into 5 different streams.

Paper
General recycling
Cardboard recycling
General waste
Compost for worms

All rinsed, bottle lids are included.

Do’s	Don’ts
Put shredded paper in the worm room Rinse rubbish trollies after use Flatten cardboard boxes Rinse bottles and cans that go into recycling Recycle all bottle lids Report any overloading issues to Samson	Put black bags in recycling Put plastic in the compost bins Leave your Method Bins in the waste room

Compost – each tenancy has a small green bin for worm waste. Tenants need to line their bin with a compostable bag liner and when it is full they need to dispose of it in the collection bin in the worm room. Note: tenants do not put the compost in the worm bin themselves, this is left to the maintenance team.

Compostable bags can be ordered online from here

What to Feed our Worms at Geyser

Compost worms benefit from a balanced diet. They will eat most normal kitchen fruit and vegetable scraps.

We want to make this easy as possible for your business. The majority of food scraps can go into the worm bins and we will monitor the health of the bins to ensure the worms are having a balanced diet.

Due to the number of bins we have, we believe we can evenly distribute the food that worms typically don’t like too much of.

Likes	Dislikes
Scraps from customer plates	Citrus, acidic fruit skin
Most fruit and vegetable scraps from food preparation	Bulk quantities of the following:
Pulp from the juicer	Spicy foods, onion, garlic, leeks, capsicums
Cooked food	Meat and dairy products
Tea leaves/bags and coffee grounds (small amount ok)	Bread, pasta and processed wheat products
Crushed/ground eggshells	Shiny paper
Hair, vacuum cleaner dust, soiled paper, tissues, handy towels, shredded egg cartons, toilet roll inners, paper lunch wrap	Fats or oils
Shredded moist newspaper & cardboard	Coffee grinds from our largest coffee sellers
Lawn clippings in small quantities (spray free), weeds, clippings, prunings, dirt and leaves
Sawdust (untreated), wood ash

What we want your assistance with is educating your staff that large quantities of the ‘dislikes’ column should not be going into worm bins and should instead go to the organic bin. Avoid large quantities of meat, citrus, onions and dairy foods. For instance,

If you have 1KG of meat you need to discard, put it in the organic bin, but if there are meat scraps left on a customer’s plate, it is fine to put in the worm bin.
If you have to discard large quantities of cooked rice that you will not sell, again, put it in the organic bin, but small amounts of starch and carbohydrates are OK.

The smaller and softer the scraps, the easier it is for the worms to digest and process them into castings.

If in doubt, put something in the organic bin and send an email to me to ask what your team should do in the future: celia@samson.co.nz

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