We can all use new sources of inspiration when it comes to working toward greater sustainability. You can find them in this blog, where we profile some of the many people in the UNL community who make smart choices about the resources they use where they live, work and play.
Have you heard about UNL’s recycling pilot project?
Welcome to a new semester, Huskers! If you’ve been on campus over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a change in recycling and waste management in select buildings. In December, nearly 80 new grant-funded waste and recycling stations were installed in eight buildings as part of UNL’s recycling pilot project. These stations contain receptacles for paper, plastic and aluminum, and landfill materials and are located in centralized, high-traffic locations near restrooms, stairs and elevators, and building entrances.
A Succesful Stustainabilty Summit
Hello everyone, my name is Anna, and I will be serving as the OS’s Communication Specialist. I started working at the Office of Sustainability on the 14th of August. What a time to join! Not only was it the start of new semester and version of attending school, but our office was also planning and preparing for our kickoff event, the fourth Sustainability Summit.
Meet UNL's New Recycling Coordinator!
Hello, all! My name is Morgan Hartman and I am excited to serve the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as your new, full-time Recycling Coordinator! As a proud alumna of UNL, it brings me great joy to be able to utilize my degree in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics and experiences as a student leader to now positively impact the campus we all know and love through positive environmental behaviors like recycling!
UNL is STARS Silver!
After 11 months of emailing, meeting, and data collecting, our office is proud to announce that we are STARS Silver! The Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS) is a framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance across the areas of academics, engagement, operations, and planning & administration. With a score of 62.46, we are thankful for our campus partners who worked to help us receive this achievement.
The Start of Standardizing UNL’s Recycling
One of our goals, as the Office of Sustainability, has been to make sustainable behavior the easy choice. Through surveys, student engagement, and waste audits we were able to see that sometimes making the sustainable choice is not that simple. Overall, the UNL community wants to increase the recycling rate, unfortunately, it is hard to keep up with the ever changing recycling world.
