The Office of Sustainability has launched the Green Workplace program, a performance improvement and recognition initiative to support campus units by addressing challenges, applying solutions and celebrating efforts to become more sustainable workplaces.
鈥淭he Green Workplace program is designed to assist units in creating manageable goals,鈥� said Tammie Lyons, strategic support specialist in facilities management. 鈥淧articipation in this program allows units to directly contribute to the University鈥檚 goal of becoming a national leader in sustainability.鈥�
The Green Workplace program is a revamped version of the Office of Sustainability鈥檚 first program, Green Office, which ran from 2015 to 2019. The checklist-based program helped campus units to identify sustainable actions they do well and identify goals for improvement.
鈥淭he Green Workplace program is a great way to understand how waste handling and recycling work at the University,鈥� said Shannon Caveny-Cox, zero waste coordinator. 鈥淔or people that are used to seeing trash and recycling bins magically get emptied, it is a good way to learn about what happens to materials that go in those bins. The materials that we collect for recycling on campus really do get recycled into new products.鈥�