Don’t Waste Zero Waste Week – Get involved!

Zero Waste Week is here and we want your ideas for how to reuse and repurpose waste both in college and beyond!

Launched in 2008 by Racchelle Strauss, Zero Waste Week is a National UK Campaign that takes place each year the first full week of September.

The campaign runs predominantly on social media and the website ZeroWasteWeek ‘to reach a community of like-minded people who want to reduce residential or commercial waste, reuse materials and recycle as much as possible. The aim of the campaign is to help householders, businesses, schools and community groups increase recycling, reduce landfill waste and participate in the circular economy.’

SERC is therefore keen to get involved and we want to hear what you are doing to mark Zero Waste Week! Are you using Tuppaware instead of clingfilm? Or composting your vegetable peels? Perhaps you have an inventive idea that others could adopt too? Let us know by sending photos of you and your idea to gogreen@serc.ac.uk. You can describe your action if you are camera-shy!

We also want to know what ideas you have for how waste could be repurposed on campus and beyond. Can you think of an inventive use for plastic bottles or cans? Have you seen an interesting use elsewhere? Whether it is melting down cans to make jewellery or repurposing plastic bottles for injection moulding, let us know! We have the skill and tools on campus to make lots happen!

The best idea and action will receive a small token of our appreciation!