Recycling
A realistic Guide to life at UCLan - written by students!
After appointing a dedicated recycling team and upgrading the facilities, the universities percentage of recycled waste increased from 12% to 29% within the first year! The current percentage of waste being recycled as of April 2009 is 35%! This is great however there are always methods of improving this!
The University needs all the help it can get from students! It has have introduced a ‘Blue Bag’ Recycling scheme for students living in halls of residence. This encourages students to recycle their kitchen waste rather than just throwing it out.
“When I was in my first year of Uni, I was in a private flat and we had no recycling facilities whatsoever! It was a real pain because we were filling up our black bin with 7 peoples worth of rubbish in which half of it could have been recycled! So having facilities within halls of residence are a great idea and stops the bin bag being changed so frequently!”
Another new introduction to the university's recycling scheme is encouraging students to recycle their old batteries. Dedicated tubes will be provided for students to recycle old batteries rather than just throwing them in the bin!
The SHE Section has extended its battery recycling scheme, look out for the new battery recycling tubes at Foster, Harrington, the Media Factory, Student Union and Victoria foyers. The tubes take all domestic type batteries AAA, AA, C, D and 9V.
Please continue to send in the internal mail all larger batteries, Li-ion lap top / radio batteries, etc to the SHE Section, Vernon Building.
