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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