Category: Green Impact 2012/13
Eco-friendly idea saves thousands of bags of packaging from landfill
This story appeared in the Faculty of Science Newsletter: An eco-friendly idea by two colleagues in the Department of Chemistry has helped save thousands of bags of packaging from landfill sites. Around 18 years ago, stores manager Pete Farran contacted Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) in Nottingham to ask if they could do anything with all of Read More …
Your floor CAN better last year’s score. Here’s how.
It’s simple. You leave the office, you switch everything off. Lights, screens, chargers, in fact anything that doesn’t legitimately still need to be switched on! If this happened every weekend in the Arts Tower, we’d save something to the tune of 26 tonnes of CO2 a year and nearly £5000 (based on last year’s statistics). Read More …