Recycling@UCL

Green UCL

Hi everyone!
I am writing a new post because this morning I received an important email so, before carrying on with the most important discussion of this blog (“Recycling: yes or not?”), I decided to talk about the “Green UCL”. The subject of the email that I got is “Are you ready for the Christmas Switch Off?” and it clearly sounded like something to talk about.

Together with the “Green Champions” and the “Environmental Sustainability Team”, “Green UCL” works in order to create a more sustainable university, striving for a more and more green, clean and healthy world. Green UCL organizes frequent events and activities aimed to promote and make aware students (and people) about the sustainable issue.
The most important activity planned for December 2014 is exactly the “Christmas Switch Off” (figure 1), organized to save energy, hence carbon and money, during the Christmas holidays.



Figure 1: "The Christmas Switch Off" poster

The idea arises considering that, during the near winter break, lots of machines and devices will be left on. Therefore, the “Christmas Switch Off” represents an intuitive, simple but important tip aimed to prevent an unnecessary waste of energy. The same event was organized during the last Eastern Holidays and the result was awesome: the saved-energy would have been enough to make 2 million cups of tea! If you need a list with all the things that could and should be switched off have a look at the "checklist and resources" link.
There is also a sort of contest that runs together with the switch off event: anyone is invited to send photos while switching off lights, radiators, projectors or whatever and, for the most original one, there is a book voucher or a chocolate award.

Obviously, Green UCL also cares about the recycling within the university. On December 4th, for instance, the facebook page was updated with a post related to new UCL recycling signage and its meaning (figure 2).

  

Figure 2: facebook screenshot of Green UCL page

To get involved with Green UCL follow this link.
Twitter: @GreenUCL – facebook: facebook.com/greenucl

So, the next post will restart the “Recycling: yes or not?” discussion. Stay tuned to read about the incineration process and its links with the other disposal methods.

See you soon on RE-cycling!