UCI Achieves Top 10 RecycleMania Ranking for 10 Consecutive Years UCI has been competing in RecycleMania for the past 10 years, each year maintaining a top 10 ranking. RecycleMania is an annual, international competition that takes places between February and April. It is an opportunity for schools to compete and [...]
UCI's Waste & Recycling Efforts Featured in UC-Vox Climate Lab Series UC Irvine's waste minimization and recycling efforts are featured in the latest University of California-Vox Climate Lab series, which explores the environmental impact of single-use items and offers easy hacks to reduce and reuse. The UCI campus community has made a serious effort to cut [...]
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 6, 2017 – The University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, has launched the Reducing Embodied-Energy & Decreasing Emissions Institute to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing. Read more: https://news.uci.edu/research/uci-named-as-partner-in-new-clean-manufacturing-institute/
Congratulations to the University of California, Irvine for winning the Green Cleaning Award (GCA) Honorable Mention (Recycling) for 2015. The green cleaning program at UCI is only four years old, and this is already the second time the university has won the award; in 2013, it won Best New Program. In just a short [...]
Food scraps from UC Irvine’s commissary used to be sent to landfills where it produced destructive greenhouse gases. But in Orange County, a state-of-the-art recycling plant takes that yucky garbage and turns it into a grey “smoothie,"a potent fuel that helps power engines at a water treatment plant. As reporter Nic Cha Kim discovered, this [...]