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GREEN TALK TO US TENNIS COURTS & CRICKET Our Sustainability & Environment PITCH GUIDE STUDENT HEALTH CENTRE FOOD VENDORS How to be a sustainable student Manager and Sustainability KEY BIKE SHED STUDENT PARKING INFORMATION See Security in BX Visit waikato.ac.nz/go/parking for info Coodinator are interested to hear ECO CAMPUS & RECYCLE building for access new ideas and answer questions, R RIDELINK WALK WAY ATMS Visit ridelink.waikato.ac.nz for info so get in touch: CAMPUS BUS STOP BIKE PATH WAIKATO STUDENTS’ UNION SECURITY Email: [email protected] STUDENT COMMUNITY BEEHIVES Phone: 07 838 4771 MAP ACCOMMODATION GARDEN COLLEGE Facebook: @EcoCampusWaikato MARAE SIL HALL VERD ALE RO Visit waikato.ac.nz/go/green for more info and sign up to our AD AD Greenbites newsletter. PUBLIC POOL RO TG T S TT TW HILLCRE HAMILTON GOING GREEN GATE 2B SPORTS TC FIELDS ORCHARD TL PARK AT WAIKATO TA SNAPSHOT At Waikato, we’re committed to TSR sustainability. AD RONGOA You can help us reduce our GARDEN GATE MS 10 impact and make sure there are ON RO GATE plenty of resources to go round 5 in the future. B KNIGHT BX ELT Keep reading to find out how. Hamilton Farmers’ Market Waikato PWC Enviroment Centre M HAMILTON MSB ACADEMY STUDEN T MAP CENTRE LAW RB FIFTH AVE TEAH A BOUNDARY RD ORANG L LAW PEACHGROVE RD THE SHOPS & BUILDING COWSHED VILLAGE RUAKURA GREEN CLAUDELANDS SUB A KP GATE Waikato Regional STUDENT K 7 VILLAGE Council S RUAKURA RD UNIREC ANGLESEA ST TRISTRAM ST J G F Trade Aid WAIRERE DR SILVERDALE RD & Pacific GREY ST I E Hamilton UNIVERSITY Development OF WAIKATO Transport Centre BRYCE LADY ST GOODFELLOW VICTORIA ST LAIN R Volunteering D Waikato FERNERY C ITS BRYANT LSL HALL GATE Love Grove GWSP 9 HAMILTON LAKE Lane Op shops Recycle Boutique WHERE THE WORLD IS GOING HAMILTON GARDENS waikato.ac.nz/go/green GATE 1 SMALL CHANGES, WHAT WE DO Our Going Green programme covers all aspects of BIG IMPACT sustainability, from environment and waste to social and community engagement. Here are some highlights: Living more sustainably is easy. What might seem like a small change now could make a big impact in the future. Here are 10 ways you can be a greener student: Waste minimisation plan reduced 37 tonnes of waste, increased recycling by 30% and diverted Buy local 3 tonnes of organic waste from landfill Support the eco-friendly brands and buy ReCycle is our bike repair space where we fix bikes that local, organic and free-range when you have been donated, and subsidise them for students and Give back can. Visit the Hamilton Farmers’ Market on gift them to migrants and refugees new to Hamilton Print less, type more Sundays and read product labels carefully. Join a club on campus, or talk to If you have to print your class notes, reduce the margins and font Eco Campus about volunteer Get growing 90% of our lecture theatres are light and temperature size, print 6-8 slides per page, double-sided and in black and white. opportunities and workshops. controlled to save energy Start your own vege garden by Save money on paper and pens and type your notes – it’s less Check out volunteeringwaikato.org.nz replanting the veges you get from wasteful and makes them easier to edit and study later on. for local volunteer work and join our the supermarket (eg spring onions, Created 11 educational videos and reached 10,000 Employability Plus Programme You can read most text books online and the electronic pumpkin seeds, potatoes). Put them views on YouTube waikato.ac.nz/go/epp to get versions are usually cheaper. in water to re-root before putting recognised for the work you do. them in the ground. Secured a 30% bus subsidy for staff and students Our Sustainability Events have over 500 attendees each Bring your own mug year. Check out our Facebook page: Switch off facebook.com/EcoCampusWaikato Turn things off at the wall when you're not Use your own reusable mug at using them, especially light switches, any café on campus and get We are leading in the greening fleet car space with and you'll notice a big difference in 50 cents off your hot drink. 73 hybrids, 14 electric vehicles and 9 EV chargers on your energy bill. We sell Uni branded mugs at Eco Campus for cheap! campus While you’re at it, bring a reusable drink bottle to class Received more than $130,000 funding to run Second-hand is best and refill it at a drinking sustainability projects Change the fountain instead of buying Before you buy new, visit an op shop to see if there’s a cheaper, second- another plastic bottle. Awarded Green Gown Award Australasia awards in 2016 way you move hand option available. Buy and sell second-hand textbooks or join and 2017 for student engagement ‘Waikato Uni Textbook Trader’ on Facebook. The best way to get to campus is to walk, bike, bus or carpool. FurniCycle (Warpit) is a reuse and redistribution tool, that allows We raised $20,000 to put towards waste minimisation University of Waikato staff, students, charities and the community to You'll get 30% off local and regional projects on campus access surplus useable furniture and equipment for free. bus fares when you get a Busit card Visit warp-it.co.uk/company/waikato for more information. No junk mail at the Student Centre. Computer graphic design students designed new artwork There are lots of bike paths in Choose to get your mail for the indoor recycling stations Hamilton and 1300 bike racks and emailed rather than posted several bike sheds on campus. Visit We have 4 beehives on campus which are part of ReCycle on campus facebook.com/ and put a ‘no junk mail’ EcoCampusWaikato if you need sticker on your letterbox. research and education any repairs. Recycle Ridelink connects people who The recycling stations on want to carpool and gives you campus take glass, cans and better parking on campus. Register at ridelink.waikato.ac.nz number 1 and 2 plastics. For more tips and a good laugh, check out our POW! (Prevent Our Waste) videos on Youtube, filmed and produced here in Hamilton..