Both the private and public sectors, including the university and college sector have a legal and social responsibility to promote and protect human health and the environment by safely, responsibly and efficiently managing and reducing waste and maximising waste reuse, recycling and resource generation opportunities.
As large organisations that manage staff, student, visitor and supplier waste, institutions must contend with a host of operational matters. Common concerns today include the increasing costs of disposal charges and landfill taxes, and the potential to adhere to Scope 3 guidelines on carbon emissions relating to estates.
To connect with like-minded sector experts on the topic of waste, join the EAUC's Waste Community of Practice. This group is for EAUC members only.
EAUC-Scotland's Waste Management Topic Support Network (TSN) is open to all, providing an opportunity for those working in or with the further and higher education sector to share ideas and questions and to get together to hear from particular speakers or discuss topics of interest.
This fascinating website contains many useful tips and suggestions on how to recycle just about anything, from hanging files to plastic dustbins, and even old weather balloons!
This publication highlights the business, educational and moral arguments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions on campus, with best practices from US colleges and universities
Two new reports argue that many new buildings in universities and colleges could be ‘unfit for purpose’ in the fast changing, market driven and low carbon world of...
An EAUC Insight Guide on the Hazardous Waste Directive 2005 (England & Wales).
HEFCE, EAUC, Leeds Metropolitan University and Business in the Community worked together on an important sector benchmarking project between 2005 and 2006
The winners' brochure from the 2010 Green Gown Awards.
In October 2010 Northern Ireland’s South Eastern Regional College (SERC) opened a brand new Environmental Skills Centre on its refurbished and extended Ards Campus.
The University of Edinburgh’s sustainability programme has achieved significant positive impact across the University and contributes to sector-wide improvements in...
Imperial College formulated a comprehensive Green IT Policy, which resulted in ICT leading a number of sustainability initiatives across the institution.
Imperial College London is committed to provide a sustainable and operable estate, despite extensive refurbishment/new build and staff/student growth.
Completed in July 2010, the £4.2m Durning Centre at Edge Hill University is a building that incorporates unique sustainability innovations.
A university’s carbon brainprint of research, consultancy or teaching is an estimate of the change in carbon emissions from its known and predicted outcomes in practice.
Confronted with the rising cost – both financial &environmental – of conventional fuel, Blackpool & The Fylde College has driven its sustainable transport using waste...
Salford Energy House provides a platform for academics to collaborate with industry in the development of products to reduce the carbon emissions.
The University of Hertfordshire has carried out a green ICT project to achieve a number of objectives associated with its data centres.
Commencing in April 2010, this survey gives an invaluable insight into the use of the NTU estate, recording the utilisation of over 300 rooms every hour.
Case studies from the winner and highly ommended for the Continuous Improvement category from the 06/07 Green Gown Awards
Case studies from the Winner and Highly Commended for the Energy & Water category from the 06/07 Green Gown Awards
Green Gown Awards 2011 - winners' brochure from the annual Awards, recognising excellence in sustainability within the further and higher education sector
A guide from the Carbon Trust on offsetting strategies
This reuse implementation guide has been compiled as part of the HEFCE funded project “Moving Towards Zero-Waste”
Harvard’s Green Campus Initiative developed the Green Building Resource which includes green building guidelines, implementation tools, LEED submittals, case studies, and...
The main aim of this water strategy is to establish procedures and recommended actions to enable Goldsmiths, University of London, to use, conserve and discharge water as...
Guidance on EPCs for rented dwellings has now been published and is available on the CLG website
In 2004 the European Commission published a handbook to give guidance to the Public Sector on procuring “green” products and services
The Guaranteed Lift Home (GLH) Scheme guarantees University employees, who formally car share, a return journey home should their car share partner let them down
James Gray Donald and David Selby, University of Plymouth, showcase the work and thinking of environmental educators concerned about the residual mechanism within their field
A leaflet from the Green Task Force at the University of Essex, this document highlights some of the University's activities and achievements in sustainability
The Carbon Management Plan commits the College to a target of reducing CO2 by 25% by 2015 & underpins potential financial savings to the institution of £58553 per year by...
In this resource you can view and download the Environmental Aspects Register from Queen's University Belfast.
Here is a link to find out about the Environmental Champions initiative at the University of Derby.
This resource consists of the environmental policy at the University of Bristol.
Here is a link to the environmental policy at Oxford Brookes University.
The job description here was created for the post of Environmental Officer at City University London. It includes both a role profile and a candidate specification.
An occasional paper written for the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges in 2004 by Gareth Simkins and Andy Nolan.
The University Campus Milton Keynes' Waste Management Policy and Procedures.
The purpose of this paper is to test the validity of the curriculum auditing tool Sustainability Tool for Auditing University Curricula in Higher Education (STAUNCH).
Notes on DEFRA Workshop – 11th September 2007
The following presentations are taken from the ‘Equipping Students with the Skills for Our Changing World’ conference.
A big refurbishment programme carried out by Bradford University in 2007 saw students re-housed in newly furnished accommodation whilst managing to keep waste to a minimum
It has been estimated that 60-70% of internal environmental improvements are dependent on getting staff to change their behaviour
EAUC Member responses about the use of food waste bins for restaurants.
Here is the Environmental Management System Environmental Manual from Queen's University Belfast.
An Environmental Excellence checklist to measure your performance and help you build an effective EMS, from Stony Brook State University, New York.
Here are template documents from University of East London, to support to 2012 Conference workshop, “The road to excellent operations is paved with internal environmental...
Here are template documents from King’s College London, to support to 2012 Conference workshop, “The road to excellent operations is paved with internal...
Here are template documents from Institute of Cancer Research, to support to 2012 Conference workshop, The road to excellent operations is paved with internal environmental audits.
This resource takes you to the intranet pages of the University of Birmingham in which they explain the environment and sustainability strategies and policies in place.
Here is the Energy Management Policies at the University of Manchester, these can be replicated in other HE institutions.
Daniel Curtis, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, asked EAUC Educational Members' Network for their assistance about the status of energy information...