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Zero-Waste Initiative: Paving the Way
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
As an institution with over 25,000 students, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln produces an overwhelming amount of waste. Although UNL currently has a waste diversion rate of about 50 percent ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Learning to Reboot a Campus or Commercial Recycling Program
- George Washington University (DC)
The only thing certain in the recycling field is that nothing is certain. In colleges and universities across the United States, sustainability and zero waste managers are constantly having to ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Working with Zero: Maximizing Partnerships to Meet Big Sustainability Goals
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Campus sustainability practitioners are often tasked to achieve goals using little funding and staffing. By maximizing networks both within and outside the traditional sustainability lens and connecting campus resources, Zero ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Four Success Stories and One Big Challenge on the Frontline of Zero Waste Implementation
- Sheridan College (Ontario) (ON)
Since our college rolled out the Zero Waste program across all four campuses two years ago, we have made significant progress in our waste diversion and reduction. In this session ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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The College of Charleston - Zero Waste Initiative
- College of Charleston (SC)
In 2012 the College of Charleston adopted the goal to dramatically reduce waste from processes on campus, and become a certified Zero Waste Institution by 2025. To achieve this goal ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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SCI - Waste - UCCS
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
- Waste Management (TX)
Students volunteer at the annual Mt. Trashmore event. This event provides a visual display of a day's worth of campus trash, which is then sorted to determine how much ...
- Posted Sept. 23, 2016
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Rescued Food Feast
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Aramark (PA)
The Rescued Food Feast was an event held at Arizona State University and was a collaboration between the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Aramark Higher Education, Sprouts Farmers ...
- Posted June 11, 2016
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Zero Waste Game Day at Duke University
- Duke University (NC)
Leading up to the 2014 Duke Football season, a formal partnership was created between Duke Athletics, Duke Recycling, Duke Stores, and the Duke Sustainability Office in order to successfully achieve ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Ohio University Move-Out Sustainability Project
- Ohio University (OH)
Each year during student Move Out week, Ohio University's Department of Recycling and Zero Waste partners with the City of Athens, Athens Hocking Recycling Center, local businesses, community non-profit ...
- Posted June 9, 2016
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Boston University Zero Waste Commencement
- Aramark (PA)
Boston University is a private research institution located in Boston, Massachusetts with approximately 33,000 undergradate and graduate students. During Commencement week, Boston University Dining Services/Aramark serves more than ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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UC Irvine Styrofoam Recycling Pilot Program
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
As UC Irvine strives to become a Zero Waste campus by 2020, the Facilities Management Sustainability Team of student workers has become more innovative in the ways to divert materials ...
- Posted June 3, 2016
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The Sustainable Bookstore: Giving New Life to Discarded University Library Books
- Appalachian State University (NC)
When the Appalachian State University library culled its stacks, close to 80,000 books were slated to be recycled. Many of these books, some dating back to the late 1800s ...
- Posted June 1, 2016
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NC State University Students Leverage Partnerships To Eliminate Plastic Bags on Campus
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Over a three-year period, the NC State Stewards collaborated with the university’s Campus Enterprises division to move toward the elimination of single-use plastic bags in the most wasteful locations ...
- Posted May 31, 2016
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UMass New2U Reuse Collection and Tag Sale
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
New2U is a student-led program that is in its 3rd year of operation. New2U collects unwanted items from across campus each spring during move-out and resells these collected item each ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
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2016 Earth Week at UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The culmination of UC Berkeley student sustainability actions is most prominent during UC Berkeley’s annual Earth Week celebration. UC Berkeley students have designated Earth Week as the time to ...
- Posted May 6, 2016
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University of New Hampshire Dumpster Dive
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
The “Earth Day Dumpster Dive,” was organized by the UNH Sustainability Institute and the Zero Waste Task Force and sought to examine the waste habits of the campus community in ...
- Posted May 3, 2016
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Earth Day at California State University, East Bay!
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
The Zero Waste Team was out tabling this Earth Day along with the Solar Club, GIS, ASI, the Biology Department, Transportation and Parking Services, and other organizations on campus!
- Posted April 28, 2016
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Zero Waste Database
- College & University Recycling Coalition (DC)
The mission of this database is to create a useful, comprehensive resource for recycling and waste reduction advocates:
Baseline: "What practices are out there? Who and how many are doing ...
- Posted March 28, 2016
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Zero Waste Football
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The first season of zero waste football at CU Boulder.
- Posted March 11, 2016
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Zero Waste Campus Toolkit
- University of Oregon (OR)
- College & University Recycling Coalition (DC)
Created by the University of Oregon Zero Waste Program in partnership with College & University Recycling Coalition, this toolkit contains resources regarding the concept of Zero Waste, Zero Waste management ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Weight-based Metrics for Zero Waste 2020: Innovations in Automation Critical to Waste Diversion
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- Creative Microsystems Inc (WA)
In spite of its importance, diverting recovered resources continues to pose fundamental problems for campus managers. In reaction to this problem, UCSC staff have redefined the apparatus of billing and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Murie Zero Waste Pilot Project
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
Despite challenges presented by its remote location in the circumpolar north - distance from disposal networks, a harsh climate and lack of municipal infrastructure - the University of Alaska Fairbanks set a ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The PAC 12 Road to Zero Waste Competition
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- Green Sports Alliance (OR)
The Green Sports Alliance (GSA) in partnership with the PAC 12 campuses initiated a Road to Zero Waste competition this year. The group developed multiple goals and objectives to encourage ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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College & University Recycling Coalition Zero Waste Workshop
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Oregon (OR)
Recycling, zero waste, sustainability coordinators and campus student leaders are welcome to attend the Fall regional workshop presented by the College & University Coalition in partnership with the University of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Discovery and Development of a Long Range Compost Plan to Support Zero Waste
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Appalachian State University began an in-house composting program on campus in 1999, and built a state-of-the-art aerated facility to expand composting opportunities, which opened in October 2011. At AASHE 2014 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Aramark Supporting Arizona State University's Commitment to Zero Waste through Operations and Educational Outreach
- Aramark (PA)
Monitoring the waste stream by minimizing our environmental footprint by reducing, reusing, and recycling waste. Supporting closed loop waste management processes and committing to innovative practices to reach an absolute ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fostering Student Leadership for Zero Waste Campuses
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
The focus of this Think Tank will be to progress the vision of Zero Waste campuses. Highlighting the importance of student involvement in these initiatives, we will troubleshoot the perceived ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fast Food Waste Streams and Zero Waste Goals: Opportunities at the Interface of Town and Gown
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Commercial districts near campuses often cater to students, offering fast and inexpensive food. Single use food service items, including containers, napkins, straws, yogurt and boba cups, bags and boxes, clog ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Cultivating a Zero Waste Culture on Campus
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
In 2014, UC Berkeley was at 48% waste diversion, well behind the UC wide goal of Zero Waste by 2020. We are just coming to the tipping point where we ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Evolution of Zero Waste in a Retail Food Court
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- Aramark (PA)
The objective of UC Irvine’s Zero Waste Food Court Pilot Program is to expand practices from campus residential dining locations to Phoenix Food Court as a model for additional ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Zero-waste Community: Bridging the Gap Between Goals and Behaviors
- Green Mountain College (VT)
One of the main goals of Green Mountain College’s Sustainability 2020 Strategic Plan is to have a net positive impact on the surrounding community. Vermont’s new universal waste ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Consumer-Free, Zero Waste Year
- American University (DC)
- University of Florida (FL)
Joseph Floyd (University of Florida) decided to live one year consumer-free and zero waste. Following the 2013 AASHE Conference, Natalia Posthill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Helen ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching and Learning for a Zero Waste Future
- DePauw University (IN)
The global materials economy is a fundamental driver of all of our most serious and urgent crises: climate change, toxic pollution, biodiversity loss, poverty, and injustice. This economic system rests ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero waste as a supply chain challenge: the importance of partnerships
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
This presentation will discuss the successes and challenges of Penn State’s initiative to move its Athletics facilities toward zero waste, and the story of how silos had to be ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero Waste Events: A Sustainable Approach to Event Planning
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
UC Berkeley established a goal to achieve zero waste by the year 2020. To achieve this goal, more materials must be diverted from the landfill through recycling and composting. In ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero Waste Outreach Strategies - Operational vs. Promotional
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
A new day is dawning over the coalfields of Appalachia. A region which has been at the heart of fossil fuel dependence, leading the nation in per capita carbon emissions ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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College & University Recycling Coalition (CURC) Zero Waste Workshop
- College & University Recycling Coalition (DC)
Come join your fellow recycling and sustainability colleagues at an open meeting organized by the College and University Recycling Coalition (CURC). CURC member and non-members are welcome to join this ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Throw Away Does Not Mean Go Away: Achieving Zero Waste on a Campus Scale
- American University (DC)
In alignment with its commitment to carbon neutrality, one university adopted a Zero Waste Policy in 2010, committing to send zero waste to landfill and incineration by 2020. This case ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero Waste: A Model for Transformational Change
- Aquinas College (MI)
As a part of its Climate Action Plan under the ACUPCC, Aquinas College is committed to become a zero-waste-to-landfill campus by May 2014. This is the most aggressive, publically stated ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Transitioning to Zero Waste Hockey: A Student Run Pilot
- University of Denver (CO)
Last year students at the University of Denver in partnership with Ritchie Center Athletics led the charge to institute zero waste hockey games at the University of Denver. This grassroots ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Getting to Zero Waste: Waste Audits
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Waste Audit Team has created a protocol for all waste audits at UC Berkeley. Up until this point, groups have been conducting audits using different methods, making it so ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Implementation of New Programs to Step Toward the Appalachian Zero Waste Commitment
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Appalachian State University has committed to becoming a zero waste campus with a goal of 90% diversion by 2022. Through thoughtful purchasing decisions, reducing consumption and increasing recycling/composting we ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Adopting Real Collegiate Zero Waste Principles: Change Management's Finest Hour
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Florida (FL)
Zero waste represents a new means of elevating sustainability operations and student leadership at colleges and universities.
However, the term "zero waste" is often misunderstood and increasingly used without clear ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero Waste Stadiums: Don't Be Scared (Or Maybe A Little)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Join us for an interactive session on Zero Waste sports venues. A zero waste stadium is commonly defined as one that achieves or seeks to achieve 90% diversion rate or ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus Recycling & Zero Waste Workshop
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Managing materials and resource flows on college campuses are vital to reducing campus greenhouse gas production and creating a sustainable campus. The Campus Recycling & Zero Waste workshop will feature ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero Waste Venues - Focus on Athletics/Sports Venues: Perspectives from three Campuses
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
Many campuses have a strong recycling infrastructure in place for day-to-day recycling collections and waste minimization, but may or may not have such a strong program specifically for Athletic events ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Changing the Game: Moving Your Institution to a Zero-Waste Paradigm
- University of Calgary (AB)
How do you go from one-off projects to a transformational shift in the way your campus manages waste? Introduce a Zero Waste paradigm-shift on your campus by bringing cross-departmental teams ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Toward Zero Waste: An Initiative for the Student Union
- Boston University (MA)
Campus dining is an intimate part of student life at any university, with the potential to have a major impact on culture. Learn how Dining Services can align with the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Striving and Planning for Zero Waste
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Many universities are now striving to become 'Zero Waste' campuses, where all materials are diverted away from a landfill or incinerator through recycling and composting efforts. This lofty, but important ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Institutionalizing Zero Waste
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Once organizations (student clubs, departments/schools, campuses, etc.) begin experimenting with Zero Waste ("ZW"") efforts, additional leaders pick them up and want to incorporate such experiences and benefits into their ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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