Disposable Food container-free campus campaign

From Common Energy UVic

This is a project of the Food Working Group and is part of our plan to move UVic Beyond Climate-Neutral.

Contents 1 What We Are Doing: 2 Meetings 3 Who's Involved 4 Interesting Documents 5 Related Projects 6 Contact

[edit] What We Are Doing:

• Brainstorming about a Disposable-Free Campus Day.
• Creating posters for public awareness regarding disposables use.
• Finding out what disposable container surchages exist.
• Developing advertisements to encourage customers to ask for non-disposables where they are offered.

[edit] Meetings

• 230PM every Monday at the Munchie Bar

• Disposables Group Minutes

[edit] Who's Involved

• Cayleigh Rees, David Cragg, Tess, Brianny Kelly, Lindsay Kwanisci, Caitlin Meggs
• The Paper Action Group (UVSP)

• The Common Energy Food Working Group:

• UVSS

[edit] Interesting Documents

• Life cycle analysis of packaging options in grab-and-go dining locations - Environmental Studies Project at the U of Colorado

• Relative merits of polystyrene foam and paper in hot drink cups: Implications for packaging - Martin B. Hocking is a professor emeritus at UVic

• Reusable and disposable cups: An energy-based evaluation - Martin B. Hocking

[edit] Related Projects

The Paper Action Group is aiming to undertake a stickering campaign to reduce the wasteful use of paper towels and hand-dryers in bathrooms, disposable dishware, paper for printing, and trashed recyclabes. We aim to:

• indentify targets for stickering
• come up with slogans to result in reduced consumption
• i.e. "Save Some Plants! Use your pants!" for paper-towel dispensers
• give proof and reasons why reduction is environmentally wise and economically beneficial

[edit] Contact

Dave Cragg: dcragg (at) uvic.ca