| Overall Rating | Bronze - expired |
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| Overall Score | 39.01 |
| Liaison | YOLANDA MENDOZA CAVAZOS |
| Submission Date | June 19, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
EN-5: Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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4.00 / 4.00 |
Yolanda
Mendoza MSc. Sustainability |
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Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign directed at students within the previous three years that has yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes
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Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign directed at employees within the previous three years that has yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes
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The name of the campaign (1st campaign):
"Eco-recicla" or "Eco-recycle"
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A brief description of the campaign (1st campaign):
This project started on April 2013 with the purpose of motivate students to recollect old or used bateries, in order to prevent groundwater and water bodies pollution. Several repositories were installed all over the Central Campus and inside the offices with the mark of this program.
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A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (1st campaign):
The results were 96 kg of alkaline batteries on June 2013 and 124 kg on april 2014, resulting in a total of 220 kg of batteries collected. All of them has been delivered to the Potable Water Commission who is in charge of the right disposal.
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The website URL where information about the campaign is available (1st campaign):
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The name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Events with sustainable spirit
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A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
The Research Department organize 5 events each year. These events consist on seminars, workshops or conferences opened to general public, students and staff at the University. The sustainable spirit consist in used them as a vehicle to promote sustainable activities such as: car sharing for the assistants. All the material is available online in digital format in order to reduce paper use. They only print a small amount of programs flyers in a 100% recycled paper.
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A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
With this program it was possible to reduce the use of 1800 PET bottles, 1000 styrofoam cups, also support 10 local business per event. This event is broadcast on 4 campuses at the same time in order to reduce the waste and CO2 emited on transportation to the main Campus.
Other departments besides the Research one are interested in using this model in the next years.
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The website URL where information about the campaign is available (2nd campaign):
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A brief description of other outreach campaigns, including measured positive impacts:
NO MORE PET Department
The Research and Postgraduate Studies Department has being commited in a Campaign against the use of PET and styrofoam in their offices. In order to acheive this, all the staff received a water bottle and a coffe cup for personal use as a gift to presuade them to stop using disposible material on February 2014. No disposable material is allowed in the offices. The staff received talks about the importance and benefit to use the water bottle and coffe cup showing them the tragedies and damage to the environment caused by the large time degradation of these materials.
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