UCI researchers join DOE-funded project to reinvent lithium-ion battery recycling

R&D effort is aimed at improving environmental sustainability and lowering costs

UCI receives funding for recycling research project

Study to examine circular economy links between materials and transportation

UCI recycling and reuse program debuts in Climate Lab video

The UCI campus community has made a serious effort to cut waste in recent years, resulting in an 80 percent reduction in non-biodegradable junk going to landfills. UCI recycling manager Anne Krieghoff discusses the university’s trash-abatement programs in a new Climate Lab video premiering today. Produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox, […]

In ocean carbon recycling, size matters

The journal Nature Geoscience published a study today from UCI Earth system scientists on the size-reactivity continuum in the ocean carbon cycle. Detrital (not living) organic matter is a very large reservoir of carbon stored in the world’s oceans; it’s roughly equal in size to the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Marine organic matter spans […]

UCI awarded for ‘impressive’ campus recycling effort

California’s statewide recycling organization, the California Resource Recovery Association, has named UC Irvine a 2013 award winner in its “Zero Waste Achievement” category.

UCI dining facility – Brandywine

Whittling down waste

UCI is a sustainability superstar in reducing, reusing and recycling – and renouncing plastic

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Building homes for a sustainable world

UC Irvine student engineer teams earn praise for innovation at the Sustainability Decathlon

California transportation chief visits UCI

Official praises Institute of Transportation Studies research

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UCI Podcast: An Earth Day conversation

Joy Seo of the Sustainability Resource Center offers habits you can adopt to help save our planet

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UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology launches Climate and Urban Sustainability Program

Program goal is to solve complex environmental challenges