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This year, the ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ has saved 437 bags of abandoned items from being sent to landfill, salvaged from items left behind in student residences last year.

Thanks to a joint coordinated effort between the University Sustainability team, ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ Estates and Facilities (SEF), the Students’ Union and the British Heart Foundation, a figurative mountain of abandoned items (primarily clothes and bric-a-brac) from the Park Houses residences has been sorted through and saved from being thrown away.

In total, these items add up to:

• An estimated £6,118 in donations to the British Heart Foundation
• 3.4 tonnes of waste saved from landfill
• 35,579kg of CO­­₂ emission saved

This is a significant improvement on items saved in 2021 and adds up to a huge saving in terms of carbon emissions and waste sent to landfill.

Every year, a large quantity of abandoned and unwanted items are left behind in student residences at the start of each summer. As part of our ongoing plan at ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ to reduce our carbon footprint and minimise unnecessary waste, items are sifted through and separated for potential re-use and donation, either to the British Heart Foundation or made available to ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ students via the Students’ Union’s Free Shop.

See more information on Sustainability at ÐÔ°®ÊÓƵ.