Category: Waste

  • New sustainable detergent sheets now available for Emerson students

    By Eco Ambassador Ava Tribe A new sustainable system for washing your laundry has just been installed in the Little Building! Instead of using pods or liquid detergent, you can now use laundry detergent sheets from a dispenser in the building’s lobby. Using these laundry sheets from this system is both environmentally friendly and cost-efficient.…

  • Esplanade cleanup recap

    By Eco Ambassador Ava Tribe On September 16, Emerson Sustainability (housed in Campus Services), Emerson Green Collective, and Emerson’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter joined with the Esplanade Association to clean up Boston’s Charles River Esplanade. Students and faculty met in the 2 Boylston Place Alley and walked over to the Esplanade to meet Esplanade…

  • The 411 about K-Cup Recycling

    This article is cross-posted with the Emerson staff newsletter people@Emerson. You may have noticed that most offices at Emerson College have Keurig single-cup coffee machines. You may have also noticed that those machines create a lot of waste—those K-Cup bins fill up fast! Learn more below about the waste associated with single-cup disposable coffee pods…