Recycling

Objectives From my auditing I have highlighted gaps within the recycling facilities, I need to be provided with the resources to improve this. This includes more bins and bin labels to enable us to do this. The bins across campus need to be the same everywhere to prevent confusion and discouragement of recycling. We need to be provided with an option to recycle; this means removing all the single waste bins and replacing them with the new four set recycling bins throughout the whole of our campus, inside and out.

What have I achieved already? Some of the recycling bins have been re-labelled and are up to date with the correct information. A recycling stall was set up for Go Green Week. I have improved recycling information by putting up more posters around the university campus about what you can and cant recycle at UWE.

Benefits to the university and its students Bristol Green Capital. To keep on track with the universities environmental policies. To encourage behaviour change at home for students. Reduce waste to landfill. Generating income by selling waste. The university can show case how green it is around Bristol and nationwide.

How to achieve our objectives Regular recycling stall to encourage everyone to recycle. Recycling boards in student halls to engage and inform students of the benefits of recycling. To achieve this we need information from sustainability about what happens to UWE’s recycling. Recycling video to be created so it can be played at the fresher's fair and put onto the website. Research into the possibility into having food waste bins in the catering units for students. Re-designing the bin storage areas in student accommodation.