Green Gown Awards 2019 - Nottingham Trent University - Finalist

#NBSdiscover is a Business School project which involves all first year undergraduate students. It runs in the first week of term, giving students an active and engaging start to their university life. Follow-up activities are embedded in a core module, ‘Personal and Academic Development’. The project tasks students to think creatively about a sustainability issue and the implications for business and society.  

Throughout 2018/19 the theme for #NBSdiscover has been plastics consumption and plastics waste reduction, inspired by Blue Planet II. During the launch week students were tasked with exploring Nottingham city centre to discover how businesses, residents and visitors use, re-use, recycle and dispose of plastics.  

Later in the year students were challenged to help functions within NTU and other organisations find creative ways to replace, reuse, recycle and repurpose plastics at a speed dating style event called ‘Sea Change’. 

Top 3 learnings:

• We have enormous power to affect behavioural change by raising students’ awareness of sustainability issues.  
• Students care about the planet and want to be part of the solution.  
• There is so much we can do to be more sustainable in our procurement practices.  

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• #NBSdiscover (click to hide)