Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
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Overall Score | 72.07 |
Liaison | Katie Koscielak |
Submission Date | May 7, 2020 |
Cal Poly Humboldt
IN-32: Single-Use Plastic Ban
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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0.50 / 0.50 |
Katie
Koscielak Sustainability Analyst Facilities Mgmt |
Has the institution banned or eliminated the on-site sales and distribution of at least one type of single-use disposable plastic?:
A brief description of the single-use disposable plastics that have been banned or eliminated:
Website URL where information about the single-use disposable plastic ban(s) is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
In addition to the robust steps that the CSU system as a whole is taking to outlaw single use plastics as general policy across all 23 campuses, Humboldt State has been an early adopter an leader in banning and phasing out plastics at HSU as both policy and general practice, having banned plastic water bottles in 2011, banned plastic bags in 2014, removed most styrofoam from Dining in early 2010's, and is currently working to reduce plastics further.
Read more at:
https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-Says-Goodbye-to-Single-Use-Plastics.aspx
http://now.humboldt.edu/news/university-phases-out-plastic-bags/
http://now.humboldt.edu/news/new-extinct-species-on-campus-bottled-water/
http://magazine.humboldt.edu/spring12/campus-nixes-bottled-water/
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