Transition Waste
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Our survey says
- 75.2% student claim to already recycle BUT
- 61% never recycle clothes or shoes - plenty of room for improvement (and Swap Shops)
Zero Waste
Have you seen the bins at your uni overflowing when students leave halls? Recycling provision varies greatly across unis but the end of term can be a key time to raise awareness and save tonnes of waste from landfill.
Freshers Free Shops and swap shops are popping up across the country. Food waste is also a key factor - we throw away about a third of our food in the UK and overall each year, households throw away 8.3 million tonnes of food, of which 65% is avoidable*!
Zero Waste objectives:
- Challenge consumption habits and culture
- Reduce tonnes of waste send to landfill by 5% annually
- Reduce food waste by introducing composting schemes
- Improve recycling provision on campus and in halls of residence
- Raise awareness among students of why and how they can reduce, reuse and recycle (particularly during the big end of term clear out)
- Strengthen university waste management plans and recycling targets
*Source: Defra Food Strategy 2030
Did you know?
Recycling reduces carbon emissions and currently the UK is saving 18 million tonnes of CO2 every year
Recycling means less waste goes to landfills reducing the amounts of Methane emissions every year
Making aluminium cans from old ones uses one twelfth of the energy to make them from raw materials and they can be back on the shelves or in vending machines in just 6 weeks!
Recycling one can produces enough energy to power a TV for up to 3 hours!
