Green Team EPP

Recycle Mania 2011 at CMU!

Green Team Admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:15:58 +0000

What is RecycleMania?

RecycleMania is a competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities across their campus communities.

Over a 10 week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to:

Who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita
The largest amount of total recyclables
The least amount of trash per capita
The highest recycling rate

Participating schools can then monitor each week’s reports and rankings to see how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their school to reduce and recycle more.

For more information, participating schools, etc. visit the RecycleMania Webpage for 2010 results!

Terracycle in EPP Mail Room

Green Team Admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:08:21 +0000

Candy Wrappers (not boxes-they go to paper recycling & no gum packaging.)
Writing Instruments (all except wood pencils.)
Chip Bags.
Foil lined Energy & Granola Bar Wrapperes.
Scotch Tape dispensers & cores.
Cheese Packaging (even the “singles” wrapping, but clean and empty please.)

Bring all these things to EPP Mailroom for Terracycling. http://terracycle.net/

Near Zero Waste Holiday Party Success!

Green Team Admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:21:08 +0000

For our Near Zero Waste Event, here are the #s from within the Tung Au Lab collection, the Drum-roll please…

3.5+ Large Bags went to Compost.
2+ Large Bags went to Recycling.
& no more than 1/2 a bag went into the trash.

Special Thanks Holiday Planners, Mireille Mobley, Patti Steranchak & Ron Ripper!

Thanks to all the different volunteers, the fabulous Compost Hosts included, Adam Loucks, Amy Nagengast, Andrea Rooney, Barbara Bugosh, Julie Mull, Kim Mullins, Maxine A. Leffard, Meryl Sustarsic, Omar De Leon, Paige Houser, Pam Torres, Patti Steranchak, Ron Ripper, Steve Gradeck, & Xiaoyu Guo. You were great!

GTE meeting Nov. 17th

Green Team Admin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:07:06 +0000

Student involvement is important for discussion and implementing real change in our department. We have a need for you to help with the composting. Composting has really picked up thanks to the new location of the compost pail, staff seminar set up and especially volunteer compost carriers!

2 things you can do:

1) We are making a schedule for volunteers to transport the compost to the UC Compost Dumpster on Wednesday & Friday afternoons. Composting is only possible with volunteers like you. Please consider volunteering and let me know which days are better for you.

2) Dec.9th is the EPP/CEE Holiday Party from 3-6pm and we are making it a “near zero waste event!” Because we will be including recycling and composting, Barb Kviz has advised us to have a “Compost Host” to man the waste stations. The more volunteers we have the shorter the “hosting” time. Please let me know if you will participate.

Other discussion at the meeting included-

-Barb Kviz has offered to present a department seminar on “Recycling 101.” We decided that sometime after Feb. 14th will be best.

-Using silverware is still under scrutiny. The current obstacle is figuring out how to fit a dishwasher into our space.

-We started collecting for Terracycle brigades and a few other local recycling collections in our Copy/Mail room. Attached is the signage for what we collect. Please post/share as you see appropriate. We’ve added this posting to our department monitor as well.

-Recently, this blog was bombarded with spam. Spammers BEWARE!!!

Improving our working & living space!

Green Team Admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:06:36 +0000

Now that EPP is housed in 3 buildings, Baker, Hamburg, & Wean Halls, we need your eyes & ears to make improvements in our space, to collect data and ideas. When it comes to “Green Initiatives,” EPP Students have the advantage of arriving to our department with various studied disciplines, past experiences, and future goals. Please post your comments, ideas & interest with us here.

WELCOME TO GREEN TEAM EPP!

Green Team Admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:46:03 +0000

Thank you for visiting!

Interested? Join us for lunch at our next Green Team EPP meeting, February 21st, 12-1, in the EPP Conference Room, Baker 129.

Please add a comment to tell us about who you are and/or what changes you would like to see. EPP Constituents come from a variety of backgrounds, what experiences or strengths will you share?

Contact Julie Mull (jmull@andrew.cmu.edu) if you are interested or for more information.

What’s a Green Team?

Green Team Admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:22:50 +0000

“A Green Team is a voluntary group of faculty, students, and staff, usually within one department, that team together to work on becoming more sustainable. To do this each team does an environmental sustainability assessment to identify areas that need improvement. This check list includes an assessment of office energy, lights, indoor air quality, waste management (reduce, reuse, recycle), green purchasing, transportation, commuting & travel and general workplace practices.”- From CMU’s Green Practices Website

Composting in EPP Office, Baker Hall 129

Green Team Admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:22:21 +0000

Right up front at the EPP Kitchen in Baker 129 is EPP’s Green Composting container. Initially only coffee & tea grounds were approved, but now we are able to take all forms of compostibles, even bone (as in chicken, no humans please,) Thanks to the volunteers who walk the compost to the UC Agricycle dumpster. In the future we may be able to add composting to other locations. I’ll keep you posted. Thanks! Julie x1703