Waste and recycling
Our aim at the University of 麻豆果冻传媒 is to promote a zero-waste culture of ‘rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle’, in order to significantly reduce waste and increase recycling across all areas of the university estate.The university is working towards its waste and recycling goal of 60% by 2025.
This means reducing packaging; cutting down paper use; reducing and recycling food waste; facilitating staff to share surplus resources internally and with local organisations; running the annual reuse project in our halls of residence, and investing heavily in recycling facilities across our campuses.
What happens to waste on campus?
Mixed recycling
Our mixed recycling is collected by The Recycling Partnership, who sort the recyclable materials into individual material types before being reprocessed.
General waste
General waste is taken to a transfer facility for inspection before being taken to the Energy Recovery centre where it is incinerated to generate electricity to power local homes and businesses.
Glass
Glass is taken to the glass recycling facility where it is crushed, cleaned and sorted by colour.
Food waste
Food waste is collected and transported by the Recycling Partnership to an anaerobic digestion plant where it is processed to produce a biogas and bio fertiliser. Biogas helps to produce renewable energy to power our homes and businesses, whilst bio fertiliser is an essential ingredient in farming and is spread on fields to help crops grow.
Re-use
At the University of 麻豆果冻传媒, we work with charities to redistribute and reuse any surplus furniture, electrical equipment and office consumables, through Warp It. The platform allows our staff to easy loan or give items they no longer need to colleagues. If the items are not required within the university, they will be passed onto our partner organisations and charities.
By the end of 2023 we have saved £249,078 and avoided generating 24,536 kg of waste. This is the equivalent of saving 120,991 kg of CO2 and planting 165 trees.
Furniture that is not reusable is recycled. The items are carefully broken down and materials separated for recycling.
Re-use Project
At the end of each academic year we run our successful re-use project, where we partner with the British Heart Foundation to encourage students moving out of halls to donate their unwanted items. In 2023 our students donated 336 bags, helping to raise £4,704 for the British Heart Foundation.