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A spate of workplace injuries, along with too much landfill, prompted Berkeley staff and students to go back to the drawing board. Their unique trash and recycling receptacles are now making their debut on campus, along with a one-of-a-kind electric trash-collection vehicle.
Tag: recycling
On America Recycles Day, EPA recognizes campus food waste reduction
November 15, 2012:
On America Recycles Day, EPA regional administrator Jared Blumenfeld came to campus to laud Cal Dining’s food waste reduction program. UC Berkeley was among the first universities in the nation to sign onto EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge, which encourages everyone to reduce both pre-consumer and post-consumer food waste.
‘RecycleMania’ a spirited, diverting race to zero waste
March 27, 2012:
Sustainability-minded Berkeley students are wrapping up an intensive two-month recycling and waste-reduction blitz, spurred by the campus’s first-time participation in a coast-to-coast contest, RecycleMania.
Trash costs, sustainability pays, says campus recycling ‘King’
February 27, 2012:
The manager of Campus Recycling and Refuse Services, Lin King, is working with campus groups, including Cal Athletics, to meet aggressive UC waste-diversion goals. To reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, he says, is not only the best thing for planet Earth, but good for the bottom line as well.
Big Ideas for Jobs Creation: A Q&A with Karen Chapple
November 7, 2011:
Thirteen big ideas for programs and policies to create badly needed jobs in the United States were unveiled Monday at a Washington, D.C., briefing.
Composting comes to Cal Hall
November 30, 2010:
The Berkeley campus took yet another stride toward sustainability Monday, as California Hall hosted its second annual “Green Coffee Hour,” the kickoff for a paper-towel composting program meant to help the campus cut its greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2014.
Campus website gives old stuff a new life
September 14, 2010:
Modeled after the Freecycle Network, the Exchange helps Berkeley community members do right by discards and go one eco-step beyond recycling.
