The latest news from our campus, our community and our friends on social media about sustainability at Mines.
Mines recycled and composted 1,530 pounds of materials and 95% of all discards for our new student/family and staff/faculty summer BBQs on August 15th and 16th. The events saved 3,729 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Total estimated attendance at both events was 4,250 people.
Green Team volunteers Chase Ganim and Emily Rotert making a difference!
Student volunteers helped break down cardboard boxes to reduce our Move-In environmental impact.
The GREEN Program is seeking sustainability leaders for its 2019 summer abroad programs in Peru, Iceland, Nepal, Japan, and Croatia. More details at thegreenprogram.com/programs
NREL Researcher Rita Clare works with an enzyme Beckham's team is engineering to more effectively break down existing PET plastic. The team is also exploring "recyclability by design": developing new plastic materials with chemical bonds that, while durab
"We urgently need a national strategy to build out our country's recycling infrastructure," Rep. Haley Stevens began as she opened an April 30 hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s Subcommittee on Research and Technology, adding, "It is our opportunity to seize."
In its first meeting on recycling in more than a decade, the subcommittee welcomed a panel of witnesses to discuss emerging technologies that have potential to turn a critical challenge—the accumulation of plastic waste in overwhelmed recycling facilities, landfills, and nature—into an environmental and economic opportunity for the United States and other countries. NREL Senior Research Fellow Gregg Beckham was invited to speak on what he and his team believe is a key element of the solution: chemical recycling.
Read more at: www.nrel.gov/news/program/2019/nrel-research-fellow-testifies-plastic-recycling-before-house-subcommittee.html