Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.05
Liaison Katherine Spector
Submission Date March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

State University of New York at Oswego
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 Jonathan Mills
Administrator
Sustainability Office
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Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

1st campaign 

Name of the campaign:
Leave Your Mark

A brief description of the campaign:
Starting in 2019, SUNY Oswego teamed up with TerraCycle, a private U.S. recycling company headquartered out of New Jersey, to re-direct used writing utensils out of the waste stream and give them a second life. Students in the technology courses at SUNY Oswego made a total of 212 small collection boxes that were distributed throughout classrooms and offices to capture all utensil waste. Any utensils collected were consolidated into the TerraCycle boxes and shipped to the headquarters and recycled.

https://www.oswego.edu/news/story/college-marks-new-recycling-opportunity-writing-utensils

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
Since the launch of the program, SUNY Oswego has managed to divert over 10,000 worn-out utensils from the waste stream to be recycled.

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2nd campaign

Name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
SUNY Oswego Print Initiative

A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
In tandem with SUNY’s Print Initiative, SUNY Oswego will be moving forward with its own initiative on campus where employees will be active participants in the effort to “print smart and print less.” The project, to be led by the Purchasing Department and Campus Technology Services, began in the summer of 2021 and will consist of three phases aimed at achieving print efficiency, optimization, and meeting sustainability goals by July 2023.

https://www.oswego.edu/cts/cts-blog/suny-initiative-targets-reduced-printing-campus

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Since the deployment of the Print Initiative throughout the SUNY system, Oswego has taken 103 printers that we underused, offline and plans to continue assessing the user demand for printers within individual offices.

While gathering data to prepare for this initiative, SUNY Oswego captured that students on average use only half of their print quota for the semester. With this discovery, the print quota has been adjusted and students seeking extra pages will need to purchase additional printing capacity.

In calculating our volume of printing from 2020 to 2022, SUNY Oswego has seen roughly a 400,000 sheet monthly reduction in the number of sheets printed.

Optional Fields

A brief description of other sustainability-related outreach campaigns:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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