Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.30
Liaison Srinivasan Raghavan
Submission Date Feb. 16, 2018
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STARS v2.1

University of Missouri
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 Srinivasan Raghavan
Sustainability Manager
Sustainability Office
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Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability? :
Yes

Has the institution held at least one sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

Name of the campaign:
MU Low Waste Initiative

A brief description of the campaign, including how students and/or employees were engaged:

During the summer of 2016, MU Campus Facilities began a 10-week process of replacing wastebaskets in cubicles and private office spaces with desk-side blue recycling bins that have smaller black bins attached for trash.

A trio of larger bins — one for plastics, aluminum and glass, one for paper and one for trash — will be placed in central locations in each building.

Employees are now responsible for sorting their trash and recycling from their personal bins into the larger bins of each building. Cleaning services will no longer remove trash or recycling from cubicles and offices.


A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:

Objectives:
1. Cost savings from reduction in labor force
2. Increase in recycling

This is an ongoing project


The website URL where information about the campaign is available:
Name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Energy Conservation

A brief description of the campaign, including how students and/or employees were engaged (2nd campaign):

MU Energy Management continues to promote energy conservation while promoting their various achievements.


A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):

MU also has achieved a greenhouse gas reduction exceeding 51 percent over 2008 baseline levels.


The website URL where information about the campaign is available (2nd campaign):
A brief description of other sustainability-related outreach campaigns, including measured positive impacts:
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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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