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Green things you can do
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
Think creatively about reducing your carbon footprint.
 UCR Dining Services recycles 100% of its cooking oil. Recycled oil is sent to be used in the production of livestock feed, pet foods, bio-diesel fuel and cosmetics.
Reduce!
Eliminate fax cover sheets; edit on the computer before printing; store files on computer disks; use small pieces of paper for short memos. Fifty million homes could be heated for 20 years with the wood and paper we discard.
 UCR manages a recycling program for paper products. Just dispose of all paper in the blue bins provided.
Reuse!
Use undated, erasable wall calendars. Buy refillable tape dispensers. Reuse lunch bags. Use a water cooler instead of individual bottled water. Plastic can take up to 1000 years before it starts to decompose in a landfill.
 UCR Housing has received a grant for recycling bottles and cans. It includes education and equipment components.
Conserve!
Unplug your laptop, DVD or other electronics that use electricity even when “off.” You can cut energy use 70% by setting your computer to go to sleep—screen savers do not save energy. Turn off lights. Lighting accounts for 40% of the energy used in offices.
 UCR Housing has upgraded all appliances with energy-efficient Energy Star equipment.
Use green power!
Grow plants that purify the air. Replace incandescent bulbs with energy-efficient bulbs, which last 10 times longer and use one-fourth the energy.
 UCR has installed compact fluorescent light bulbs and energy-saving fluorescent light fixtures in all Housing facilities.
Be energy efficient!
Keep heating vents unobstructed and heating and cooling to a minimum. Take the stairs—it burns 10 times more calories than taking the elevator and saves electricity.
 UCR uses thermal energy storage tanks to optimize the efficient use of power across campus.
Be water-wise!
Turn off water while washing hands, brushing teeth and washing dishes. You could save 1000 gallons of water a year just changing.
 UCR saves 9000 gallons of water per day with new air-cooled compressors for refrigeration and freezing, and saves 8000 gallons of water weekly by eliminating dining trays.
Recycle reuseable materials!
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours or a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. If all newspapers were recycled, we could save 250 million trees each year. Americans use more than 2 million plastic bottles per hour; most are discarded.
 The campus has recycling programs for cans, glass, paper, cardboard and plastic in offices, apartment common areas and residence halls.
To learn more about Sustainability at UCR, please go to http://sustainability.ucr.edu/ |
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