Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan 2023 Chapter 6 Recommendations, Campus Development 6-E-5 May, 2023 Operations: Miscellaneous Initiatives FCC should continue and increase its sustainable practices in many ways, for example: • Efforts at recycling should be increased, as long as a suitable entity can be found to actually do the recycling. A recycling policy and provision of the means to carry it out with distinctive containers that won’t be confused with trash containers should be implemented. • Housekeeping services should continue to monitor its purchases of cleaning supplies, to avoid purchasing red list products. • Food service operations should increase its efforts to provide healthy, tasty food as alternatives to high-fat, high salt and high sugar content offerings, including in vending machines. • Limited use of paper should continue to be encouraged. • The College should continue to install low-flow plumbing fixtures. • Resilience. The College should continue to review its policies to be able to rebound from unforeseen events that could cripple any number of infrastructure and operational systems, such as loss of power, flooding, a fire, or loss of its network, or other systems; in other words, develop a disaster recovery plan. Education, Teaching by Example Finally, education of the state of the local and global environment and of sustainable practices is key to the success of implementing sustainable policies. This includes all members of the FCC community: staff, faculty students, and the local governing entities and residents. In addition, the College is looking at a unique opportunity: to become the sustainability exemplar for the City of Frederick, Frederick County and beyond. And who could be better positioned to achieve this than Frederick Community College.
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