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► Environmental Policy

Welcome to the environmental section of the website. Here you will be able to find details of the Union’s environmental policy, and some ideas for action you could take to help reduce your carbon footprint whilst at the University of Salford.

The Union’s policy on environmental issues can be read below. Please feel free to give us feedback on the statement, and offer us ideas on how we can improve our attempts to make a positive impact.

Things you could do:
 
  • The Students' Union has signed up to the 10:10 Campaign, and encourages its members to do the same. Find out more about the campaign and its impact here
  • Join the Green Collective and support their work - full details here
  • Take part in Go Green Week. Full details of campus based events are here and the national campaing can be found here
  • Got an old or unused mobile phone? Recycle it for a Gift Card by clicking here and read about the campaign behind the process here
  • Read our pages on recycling by clicking here
  • Click on some of the links to other organisations who undertake work to reduce carbon footprints, improve sustainability and recognise the need to make a positive impact on the environment

The Policy
he University of Salford Students’ Union (USSU) exists to enhance students’ lives through effective representation and the provision of high quality services and facilities.

USSU recognises that its operations result in emissions to air and water, and the generation of waste. It is therefore committed to minimising the impacts on the environment of its operations by means of a programme of continuous improvement. Therefore USSU is committed to:

  • Integrating environmental considerations into future business policy decisions;
     
  • Identifying, prioritising and documenting the Union’s most significant environmental aspects and environmental impacts, and creating a plan to reduce these where possible;
     
  • Work proactively with the University’s Energy Manager to reduce energy consumption in the premises occupied by the Union and ensure that any future developments of those premises are delivered with a view to minimising their environmental impact;
     
  • Encouraging students and staff to switch off lighting and other electrical equipment appropriately to minimise energy consumption – through staff bulletins, appropriate signs in rooms, advice to student groups and general advice to students.
     
  • Proactively reducing the volume of waste to landfill produced by the Union, and recycling as much as practicably possible whilst working with the University to ensure that University waste disposal/recycling arrangements take account of the needs of the Union;
     
  • Monitoring, and seeking to reduce, paper consumption in photocopying, office printing, stationery and general printing expenditure whilst attempting to increase the proportion of paper used for printing, copying and publications sourced from recycled material or from sustainably managed forests;
     
  • Supporting NUS Services’ Sound Ethical Choice programme aimed at promoting Fair Trade and sourcing goods for retail from suppliers graded A-C by NUSSL’s Ethical and Environmental Committee.
     
  • Working pro-actively with the University, Local Authority and other Students’ Unions and the community at large to progress environmental initiatives and exchange best practice;
     
  • Meeting and, where appropriate, exceeding the requirements of all relevant legislation;
     
  • Ensuring all staff and officers receive the necessary instruction and training to enable them to understand this Environmental Policy and to contribute effectively to its operation;
     

Using the website and Student Direct to promote environmental issues:

  •  Aiming to achieve a year on year increase in the Union’s score through NUS Services’ Sound Impact Awards, whilst maintaining the minimum expected standards to achieve a Bronze Award;
     
  • Reviewing this Environmental Policy every two years.

 
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