The Green Crescent (Crescent House Green Impact team) are now turning their teabags and banana skins into compost to feed the university gardens, reducing the need to buy in compost and thus reducing financial and carbon costs. It’s very easy: you can do it too! Speak to your Building Manager. They will order you a […]
Moshe Kinn, Student Green Impact Coordinator for the Energy House, announces the following campaign: “We at the Energy Hub Green Impact Team would like to share with you our campaign to reduce our carbon emissions by helping to reduce the volume of the rubbish we recycle and throw away. It is simple: the larger the […]
Guest post by Richard Fitton, Applied Buildings and Energy Research Group With the new year coming the team have made it their new year’s resolution to start trying to ascend the Green Impact league. As a unit that prides itself on cutting edge energy research, we feel that it is a natural step for us to […]
Green Impact is in full swing, and we’re nearly at the *final deadline* for teams to sign up (18th December), so to be in for a chance of winning an award for your office (and making it cosier as well as more sustainable), get in touch ASAP (c.spring@salford.ac.uk). We have a team of trained-up student […]
I hope that you have had a good summer and enjoying the start of term. Have a look below at some of the exciting stuff we have going on this semester. 17th Octoberis our annual Wallness Lane clean up. We spend a couple of hours clearing along Wallness Lane by the Leisure Centre which […]
The Environment and Sustainability Team’s textile recycling campaign, ‘New Life for Old Pants’, has been shortlisted in this year’s prestigious Green Gown Awards, which “recognise the exceptional sustainability initiatives being undertaken by universities and colleges across the UK.” The Awards, which are now in their eighth year, have become established as the most prestigious recognition […]
The Environment and Sustainability Team have completed a number of audits of waste from buildings on campus. The audits involve sorting the contents from all or a sample (at least 1 in 5) of black bags of general waste (waste being sent to landfill) removed from buildings. The waste is usually from a day and the audits […]
Are you fashion forward? Are you skint and need new clothes? Are you looking to get a new look? Swishing is the newest must-do fashion trend where anyone interested in fashion can come along and go home with a new piece of clothing. Bring along your clean, good quality pieces of clothing, jewellery and shoes […]