WueMue - Waste separation, avoidance and recycling at JMU Würzburg
WueMue: New project team member for the second year of the project
In the second year of the ‘WueMue – Waste Separation, Prevention and Recycling at JMU Würzburg’ transformation experiment, the project team was joined by a new member of staff.
Since the start of the year, Katharina Helm has been actively involved in shaping the further development of WueMue, bringing fresh ideas to the table and supporting the implementation and optimisation of existing measures.
WueMue goes into extra time – its term has been extended by one year
The WueMue transformation project aims to conduct a fundamental investigation into waste prevention, improved waste separation and the optimisation of waste disposal processes at JMU, and to develop tailored solutions with the aim of achieving long-term and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
During the first 12 months, key sub-objectives of the project have been achieved. This has led both to an improvement in the objective waste situation at various JMU sites and to an increase in the subjective perception of the waste situation among the stakeholders involved.
The transformation project is now entering its second phase and will receive funding from WueLab for a further 12 months. The focus will be on the following areas:
- Raising awareness among stakeholders about waste separation in an accessible way
- Contributing to the digital degree programme ‘Interdisciplinary Sustainability Sciences’
- Optimisation of waste collection points at locations already involved
- Sustainable project documentation to facilitate the potential roll-out of the project concept to other sites
Further information can be found under the WueMue project.
You can find the latest updates on the pilot phase under WueMue News.
The WueMue project
The WueMue transformation project has a duration of one year and is funded by the WueLab. The aim of this transformation experiment is to make a contribution to the long-term and sustained reduction of greenhouse gases through the resource-saving handling of waste. The focus here is on the investigation and development of solutions for:
- Waste avoidance
- Better waste separation
- Optimization of waste disposal processes
- Raising awareness among the status groups
At the beginning of the project, the current waste behavior at JMU is recorded by surveying various stakeholders. Based on these findings, individual interventions are implemented and then evaluated in order to be able to determine an actual improvement. Another central starting point is to actively raise awareness among all status groups at JMU with regard to increased waste avoidance and striving for improved waste separation so that it can be fed into the recycling cycle. Various formats and low-threshold offers are being tested for this purpose. The experiment is designed to identify basic structures and test possible solutions.
Would you like to get actively involved, do you have a particular waste situation at your location or good ideas for improving the situation? Please contact the project management directly!
Find more information on Projekt WueMue.
The current status of the WueWue practice mode can be found on the WueMue news website.
