University of North Texas
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

The Bring Your Own Bottle program is sponsored by UNT Sustainability. The BYOB program encourages individuals to make the choice to use a reusable bottle as opposed to a disposable one.

The University of North Texas is proud to provide multiple filtered water fountains on campus to help you refill your reusable water bottle. As a result, fewer plastic bottles will up in a landfill.

To increase campus support of sustainability initiatives, The We Mean Green Office Certification Program (WMG-OCP) seeks to promote a positive behavior change that encourages innovative responses to sustainability challenges. This program targets campus operations by engaging UNT Professionals to identify ways to contribute to the social, economic, and environmental vitality of UNT. While the program's focus directly reflects the various goals and mission of the university as they relate to sustainability leadership, it focuses on individual actions and behaviors. The idea is that it takes the individual actions and behaviors of the campus community to bring a policy or master plan to fruition.

Cost-Savings Sustainable practices often result in short- and long-term cost savings. The WMG-OCP addresses areas with the greatest potential for reducing costs, such as energy consumption, waste management, purchasing, and printing. Reduce Carbon Emissions Many of these cost saving practices also reduce the carbon footprint of the university. The WMG-OCP provides information, aid, and incentives to not only reduce fossil fuel consumption, but also to substitute away from high carbon-emitting production practices through recycling and purchasing decisions. Positive Behavioral Changes Reductions in costs, carbon emissions, and waste streams can be achieved in a variety of ways—incentives, coercion, and mandates, to name a few—but establishing a sustainable culture on campus is the only true way to realize the full benefits of these practices. This is why the WMG-OCP seeks to establish a community that fosters information sharing, green innovations and sustainable partnerships both internally and with the local community through positive behavioral changes to reach the goals of the university.