KEYWORD

waste management

UCI dining facility – Brandywine

Whittling down waste

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

Person bicycling in Aldrich Park.

UCI becomes two-time recipient of STARS Platinum rating for sustainability efforts

Rare recognition secures its place among world’s environmentally outstanding institutions

Ronald Fleming (right), executive director of UCI Transportation and Distribution Services, helps U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh connect an electric car to a campus charging station, with (from left) Chancellor Howard Gillman, UC Regent John A. Pérez, UCI Vice Chancellor for Research Pramod Khargonekar, U.S. Rep. Mike Levin and Irvine Mayor Farrah Khan looking on.

UCI is No. 2 in Sierra magazine’s 2021 ‘Cool Schools’ ranking of sustainability leaders

Campus has been in top 10 for unmatched 12 straight years, with 4 first-place finishes

UCI is No. 1 in Sierra magazine’s 2020 ‘Cool Schools’ ranking of sustainability leaders

Campus has been in top 10 for unmatched 11 straight years, with 4 first-place finishes

UCI is No. 1 in U.S., No. 2 overall in Sierra magazine’s 2019 ‘Cool Schools’ ranking

With unmatched 10 straight years in top 10, campus is higher ed sustainability leader

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, […]

Getting the lead out

Oladele Ogunseitan picks up a cell phone and tosses it into a small wood chipper in his UC Irvine lab. Is he conducting a wacky experiment? Overreacting to one too many dropped calls? Actually, Ogunseitan grinds up old phones for a purely scientific cause: He’s studying toxic electronic waste. Chair of the population health & […]