Green Gown Awards 2024 Finalists
The University of Liverpool has been shortlisted as a 2024 Green Gown Awards Finalist in the Campus Health, Food and Drink Category, for Campus Food and Drinks sustainable food and drink initiatives.
This nomination is in recognition of our commitment to placing health and nutrition, social responsibly, value for money and knowledge at the heart of our offering. Our team has developed a new Sustainable Food Policy, overhauled services, and implemented a package of initiatives varying from, using local and seasonal produce as standard to minimise energy used in production, transport and storage, to introducing food waste recycling in catering outlets. In a bid to further reduce waste we have partnered with the student Food Pantry to donate end of date food products, set up an in house ‘2good2go’ operation and introduced Bottle Up water bottles to reduce plastic waste. Contributing towards a circular economy, reusable cups and plates have been introduced for internal catering, and the keep cup campaign was launched. All this impressive work contributed to reducing our carbon footprint with 37.9 kgCO2e saved through sending 3.05 tonnes of food waste for anaerobic digestion alone since September 2023!
We have worked very closely with the Sustainability team and their support and advice has been invaluable in helping us achieve our goals
Congratulations to all the staff and students involved in these fantastic initiatives. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony which takes place in November in Edinburgh.