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Coming up: Fall, 2023 Clean Out Your Office (COYO) day
Calling all faculty and staff! Are you looking for a festive way to celebrate Campus Sustainability Month this October? Do you have some old office supplies you’re not using anymore? Or are you looking for the perfect stapler for your desk? Join sustainability staff on Wednesday, October 18, for our fall Clean Out Your Office…
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Griff Gives results in nearly 12 tons of donations
The results are in! We donated nearly 12 tons of goods through the spring 2023 Griff Gives sustainable move-out program. We gave: 6.25 tons of clothing, books, and housewares to Goodwill 4 tons of dorm supplies to Grad bag 1.5 tons of minifridges, microwaves, and furniture to Habitat for Humanity 200 pounds of food to…
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Weigh the Waste — April, 2023
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig The final Weigh the Waste event of the year took place on April 26, Stop Food Waste Day. Eco Ambassadors ran the usual routine—tables out upstairs and downstairs with labeled, plastic tubs for weighing waste during the dining period—one last time before the end of the school year. This time,…
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Griff Gives, 2023: Sustainable Move-Out
Time flies and the semester is almost over! As you begin wrapping up another year at Emerson, consider actions to reduce your waste as much as possible. Today, Campus Services, with the help of our four student Eco Ambassadors, is launching a reimagined sustainable move-out program called Griff Gives. From this afternoon until noon on…
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Recap: Campus Race to Zero Waste
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga It’s official! The nationwide Campus Race to Zero Waste competition ended on March 25, 2023 after running since January on campus here at Emerson College. After three months of non-stop events, hard work, and campaigning to promote waste diversion, the results are in. Before getting to how we did as…
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Library Love: an upcycled art competition
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga On Wednesday, March 22nd, a semester’s worth of work and planning culminated in successfully hosting Library Love, an upcycled art competition in the CoLab space of the Iwasaki Library! For a few hours, students, faculty, and staff members came together to create and discuss sustainability on campus through crafting. With…
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Weigh the Waste — March, 2023
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig On Monday, March 20, Emerson’s Eco Ambassadors hosted the third Weigh the Waste event of the 2022-23 school year. Weigh the Waste is held to measure the amount of different kinds of waste students produce during an average dining period in the dining hall, in addition to recording students’ reasons…
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Weigh the Waste — February, 2023
By Eco Ambassador Katelyn Koenig Wondering why we’re asking you to sort your waste this evening? You’ve come to the right place! During the fall semester and now once again in spring, Eco Ambassadors set up weigh stations in the dining hall to track the amount of waste that students produce in an average dinner…
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What is waste diversion?
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga This week marks the start of the annual Campus Race to Zero Waste. Emerson has entered the waste diversion division of the competition this year. Waste diversion, or landfill diversion, is the process of diverting waste from landfills for uses such as recycling, composting, or repurposing. The main goal is…
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December Weigh the Waste events brings in one pound of edible food waste per minute
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig On December 7, the Eco Ambassadors worked with the dining hall to set up tables with large, labeled bins to collect all the waste from that evening’s dinner period. Eco Ambassadors worked the tables, directing waste into organized categories, both to encourage dining-goers to properly dispose of their waste and…
