The USU is committed to a sustainable future for our campus community and has made commitments ensuring sustainability is embedded into everything we provide – from our events and cafés to our student programs and facilities.
Here is a list of what we are doing so far:
- Our coffee is Rainforest Alliance Fairtrade supplied by Vittoria Coffee and $1 from every bag sold goes directly to Oz Harvest
- We are working towards a full ban of balloons at Festivals
- We have eliminated plastic straws in our bars and outlets and now using #iamnotplastic straws on request
- We have eliminated 80% of plastic bottle waste in our outlets where we now use The Juggler milk tap system
- We use Biotrem compostable tableware exclusively via our USU eats Food Truck
- We offer a discount of 50 cents when you BYO a bowl at Courtyard, Abercrombie, Carslaw and Laneway
- USU Rewards members get 35 cents when they BYO a cup or mug
- We have a mug wall at Courtyard where customers may borrow a reusable cup
- We provide a container deposit scheme in 4 key buildings to capture bottles and cans
- We have introduced a coffee ground reuse program at our outlets
- We have installed a Farmwall micro-green wall at Courtyard
- We have partnered with Bring Me Home to provide a comprehensive Food Rescue program
- We have partnered with Planet Ecologica to transition all paper-based products to industry first IAMNOTPAPER products
- We offer USYD Frank Green reusable cups and UNTRASHY reusable straws at an affordable price
- We support and donate to Oz Harvest
- We are working to phase out most single use plastics including PET cups, containers and cutlery
- Our bread is supplied by the Bread and Butter Project, Australia’s first social enterprise bakery
- We have committed to City of Sydney’s Zero Waste Sydney Single Use Plastic Pledge
- We have committed to City of Sydney’s Love Food Sydney project
In our effort to become more sustainable we have partnered with companies who share similar social, environment and ecological goals:
- Vittoria Coffee
- Farmwall
- The Bread and Butter Project
- Kellogg’s
- IKEA
- Planet Ecologica
- Biotrem
- Six Simple Machines
- Oz Harvest
- Bring Me Home
- Untrashy
- Frank Green
- Citizen Blue
CONTACT US
If you have an idea or would like to help us with our mission to make USYD the most sustainable campus in Australia, contact us at:
sustainability@usu.edu.au
For expression of interest in relation to corporate partnerships at our USU Sustainability Week 2020, please email:
advertising@usu.edu.au
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