REDUCING EMISSIONS
- Target: 2% carbon reduction year on year
- Replace company car fleet with electric alternatives
- Power saving features for auto turn off desktop PCs to be applied via Group Policy
- Replace classroom desktop PCs with Chromebooks
- Investigate/install electric charging points for cars
- Promote Cycle to Work Scheme
- Investigate Salary Sacrifice Scheme for electric vehicles
- Investigate agile working options with a view to formalising ‘work from home’ arrangements
- Consider Ascentis L1/2 Award in Environmental Sustainability for L1 Media students
- Set up a Green Newsfeed on IEG Insights (staff intranet)
- Embed sustainability within the Tutorial programme e.g. Carbon Literacy Certificate
- Develop additional sustainability modules/courses for the 2022/23 Curriculum Plan
- Work with Student Union Environmental Officers to drive awareness raising and sustainability actions
- Set up an Environmental Suggestion Box and report ideas to the Student Councils for action
- Promote sustainable food options – meat free days
- Create an environmental page on the Student Hub to share information and raise awareness
- Internal audit schedule to include an audit of environmental reporting within IEG
IMPROVING OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
- Tree planting on both campuses to offset paper use
- Engage with environmental groups such as Woodland Trust to encourage biodiversity through planting
- Create an end-of-year Green Festival to include short film, art exhibition, rewilding workshops, tree planting
- Continue paper and cardboard recycling policies alongside toners, containers and consumables
- IT waste – broken keyboards, mice, power cords etc. to be recycled wherever possible to reduce landfill
- Wild flower planting on green areas where there is little/no footfall – banks etc.
- Install bug houses made by students
- Install bat boxes (identify best locations)
- Make and install wind chimes to scare pigeons away from the estate
- Terracycle (crisp packet recycling project) to be undertaken by Pathways students
- Review Ascentis L1 Award in Preventing Plastic Pollution for L1 Media students
REDUCE THE CONSUMPTION OF RESOURCES
- More sustainable purchasing and working with local companies who support our environmental value
- Liaise with UCP campus and Art Technicians to reduce consumables, e.g. within Photography
- Source options for reusable/ recyclable catering packing
- Implement Papercut across Peterborough and UCP campuses to raise awareness of paper consumption and consumable costs, and reduce photocopying
- All end-of-life hardware to be recycled in line with the appropriate WEEE directive, enabling recyclable materials to be broken down into component parts
- Replace LTO plastic cartridge tapes and ribbons for backing up data with digital cloud solution
- Implement full hardware and peripheral recycling – returning all equipment, bags and additional peripherals to IT for re-distribution
- Reduce the amount of paper used within HR
- Install timing mechanisms for standalone heaters (e.g. IAG pods, Melbourne Road seating area)
- Pilot the Eco Schools ‘Green Flag’ initiative
- Replace plastic bottles with water jugs at all college meetings and events
- Reduce sale of plastic bottles in Refectory, Bistro and vending machines; promote cans, water fountains
- Recycle old furniture/give to charities
- Use coffee grinds for garden areas or give away
- Promote free sustainable period products for students
- Consider paper/plastics recycling bins for classrooms
- Avoid use of embroidered names on Student uniforms and set up a ‘new to you’ shop to recycle uniforms from one year group to another
- Install clothes swap rail in Bistro