Today as part of Sustainable City Week 2017 Library Services will be handing out exclusive water bottles to City students and staff from 11:30 am in the Northampton Square Library. Britain consumes 3 billion litres of bottled water per year. Typically bottled water retails at up to 500 times more than the price of tap water The average student will spend £25,000 on bottled water and associated soft drinks in their lifetime. The majority of bottled water is sold in PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles. All PET bottles can be recycled. Yet it is estimated that only 3 billion of the…
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Overall winners of Sustainability City Awards
Posted in Cass Business School, City Law School, School of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Health Sciences, and SMCSE
Library Services have only gone done it again. Here at Library Services we work very hard to improve our environmental impact and to promote sustainability to everyone at City. This week we have been awarded Overall Winner of City’s Sustainability League for the second year running. We faced some very stiff competition from some very tough and capable opponents from across City (think D2: The Mighty Ducks and you get the picture).* Library Services have been awarded platinum level for sustainability every year since 2014. This year we organised a series of activities to improve the environmental impact of the library and to…
Bin to the Library during exams season?
Posted in NSQ, and Sustainability
Help us improve the Library’s environmental impact. In a recent waste audit of library spaces around 30% of our recycling bins were contaminated with items that could not be recycled. The main culprits were plastic bags, paper coffee cups and crisp packets. Contaminated recycling bins can mean that none of the goods in the bag get recycled. What can get recycled at City You can recycle of all these items in the dry recycle bins: Paper and card (including paper towels) Plastic bottles and containers Food and drink cans Drink cartons Glass City recycles loads of stuff: everything from paper to old stationery and mobile…
Garbage. Dumpster. Trash can. The humble dustbin comes in a variety of forms and synonyms, none more exciting than the dazzling array of new multi-purpose bins we have across all the Library sites. Simon B in particular is a big fan of our new bins and wanted to share with everyone just why he loves them so: “The new bins are great… real snazzy and come in a fetching palette of soothing greys, black and green. You can put recyclable waste in the green bit and non-recyclable waste in black bit, and as long as food has been emptied from the…