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Emerson Diners Significantly Reduce Food Waste!
Read more: Emerson Diners Significantly Reduce Food Waste!By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy On Wednesday, November 15th, Emerson’s Sustainability Fellows held the last Weigh the Waste event of the semester in the Dining Center. For more details on Weigh the Waste events this semester, check out our past blogs! We totalled 84.4lbs of waste for the night. Compared to October, that’s a whopping…
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Tech Series 3: Forest Restoration
Read more: Tech Series 3: Forest RestorationBy: Katie Koenig (Sustainability Research Fellow) In the last Tech Series post, I focused on technological innovations and strategies for carbon capture in the energy sector. This time, I’ll be looking into another method of carbon capture, this one more based in natural resources and ecosystems rather than high-tech solutions. Specifically, I will detail our…
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Tech Series 2: Carbon Capture
Read more: Tech Series 2: Carbon CaptureBy: Sustainability Fellow Katie Koenig With atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rising, and the impacts of climate change already affecting populations around the world, there is a greater need not only to reduce future greenhouse gas emissions but also to actually remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. We have to go beyond reducing emissions in order…
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Weigh the Waste- October 2023
Read more: Weigh the Waste- October 2023By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy On October 26th, Emerson’s Sustainability Fellows held our monthly Weigh the Waste event in the Dining Center. As was done in September, Fellows tabled on both floors of the dining hall and set out clear plastic bins to collect diners’ edible food waste, inedible food waste, liquids, and trash, and…
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Toner and Ink Cartridge Recycling
Read more: Toner and Ink Cartridge RecyclingBy Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy Did you know that you can recycle empty toner and ink cartridges at Emerson through WB Mason? Recycling your printer’s cartridges is a great way to keep useful materials out of landfills and help Emerson stay sustainable! Once WB Mason sends cartridges back to HP, they are recycled and made…