Pugh Auditorium was abuzz with discussion after the closing credits of Tapped on January 25, 2011. The film screening, which officially began the university’s “Choose to Reuse” campaign, drew a diverse audience from university departments and the wider Winston-Salem community. Tapped explores the bottled […]
Mismatched recycling bins from across campus found new homes just in time for the holidays. The displaced bins — a result of the transition to a new recycling bin standard on campus — were donated to schools across the county, as well as to local […]
Megan Anderson, nicknamed “Captain Planet” by her friends, unabashedly loves trash. In almost any other profession, this trait would be considered a little bizarre, but as the university’s new Waste Reduction and Recycling Manager, Anderson’s affinity for garbage is a great asset. “The average […]
Join the launch of our campus-wide Choose to Reuse campaign by attending the screening of the award-winning documentary, Tapped. The screening will begin at 7:00 pm in the Benson Center’s Pugh Auditorium. The first 50 in attendance to sign a pledge to reduce […]
The university’s dining services provider, ARAMARK, has made numerous strides toward sustainability by reducing waste in the major campus dining facilities. In keeping with this commitment, campus dining began using a new cleaning method in the Reynolda Fresh Food Company that eliminates 99.9 percent of […]
Deacon fans young and old have something new to cheer about at this season’s home football games. Tailgaters in the Gold, Blue, Red, and Green lots recycled more than 1000 pounds of cans and bottles at the two opening home games, as part of the […]
Campus Kitchen has long been known for efforts in food justice on campuses across America. The university’s branch expanded these efforts in February through a unique partnership with high-end artisanal grocery store, The Fresh Market. Through Campus Kitchen, between 400 to 650 […]
The Waste Reduction and Recycling internship has been re-opened for applications. The intern will work with the director of sustainability and the WFU waste reduction and recycling manger to develop waste reduction campaigns for campus. The work may include waste audits, development of recycling […]
Members of the Wake Forest community can now refill empty ink jet printer cartridges at the University Bookstore on Hearn Plaza for a small fee through the university’s Ink-O-Dem (pronounced INK-OH-DEEM) program. Cartridges can be re-inked using this system several times before they must […]
The primary laboratories on the Reynolda Campus — Winston and Salem Halls — received unique overhauls over the last two years, reducing the negative environmental impact of the university’s scientific research by cutting back on chemical and exhaust waste. The Salem Hall exhaust system, […]
Q: I know that I should consider the environment when printing, but there are so many options, I don’t know which method is the best. What is the most sustainable printing method? A: With a myriad of options from paper type to printing device, the […]
From unwanted textbooks to used furniture to notebook paper, university students together diverted more than 8,725 pounds of waste from dumpsters and landfills during 2010 move out, the most waste intensive part of the academic year. For the 3rd semester in a row, the […]
RecycleMania kicked off with a bang on January 17th; the 10-week competition runs through March 27th. Competing against colleges and universities across the nation, Wake Forest aims to reduce the amount of municipal solid waste produced, and to increase the amount of recyclables collected […]
What exactly is RecycleMania and why is Wake participating? RecycleMania is a 10-week recycling and waste reduction competition between colleges and universities. This year it runs from January 17th to March 27th. The schools are ranked weekly to determine which school has the largest […]
Nearly a quarter of a million polystyrene clam shells (aka Styrofoam to-go boxes) leave Wake Forest dining locations every year. The clam shells are not recyclable in the area. In conjunction with the Erase the Waste campaign in campus dining, the office of sustainability […]
