| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 55.33 |
| Liaison | Nina Hartwig |
| Submission Date | Aug. 1, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
ER-2: Student Sustainability Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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5.00 / 5.00 |
Kate
Nelson Chief Sustainability Officer Office of Sustainability |
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Does the institution hold a campaign that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes
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The name of the campaign(s):
RecycleMania and Campus Conservation Nationals
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A brief description of the campaign(s):
UW-Milwaukee has participated in the international waste and recycling competition, RecycleMania since 2009. The program impacts the operations and awareness of recycling on campus. Results are measurable and have documented an increase in recycling on campus. Students are engaged in waste audits, "green buck" programs incentivizing recycling, and multiple internships that manage and measure the impacts of such programming. Labeling trash bins with the term "Landfill" had the most measurable impact on increasing recycling on campus.
UW-Milwaukee has also participated in the Campus Conservation Nationals, an energy and water reduction competition across campus through the Lucid dashboard. UWM was a part of the national campaign as well as its own competitions. Programming was throughout campus, but specialized in residence halls with special RA training, student peer-to-peer dorm room audits, unplugged music events, and many other programs. Academic buildings competed against one another as well. The winning department/building was awarded 10 lbs of fair-trade coffee.
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A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign(s):
RecycleMania tracking, improved in 2011 at UWM with hauler cooperation, has since resulted in a 5% increase in recycling on campus. All areas, the Student Union, University Housing, and Academic/Admin buildings have all shown increases. The campus recycling rate is currently 39% for traditional recycling.
The Campus Conservation Nationals has been done in several capacities at UWM. The CCN competition in 2012, which only included residence halls, resulted in a 14,094 kWh reduction, which would have proved better except for one out-lying building that had a 15% increase. The 2012 CCN competition also resulted in a water savings of 55,229 gallons. An earlier campus only competition, "Reduce Your Use" in 2011, engaged the Academic/Admin buildings as well. The winner of that competition, and the 10 lbs of organic fair-trade coffee was our Engineering building, a significant energy consumer on campus, with a 7% decrease in energy consumption against its own baseline.
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The website URL where information about the sustainability outreach campaign(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
CCN competitions can be found at: www.buildingdashboard.net/uwm/
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