Less Plastic, More Impact: How Our Alumni Travel Program Is Reducing Single-Use Waste
Stanford Travel/Study, an educational travel program for alumni and friends of the university, is tackling plastic waste trip by trip.
New Student Orientation volunteers served as “bin monitors” during move-in day, engaging over 1,700 new students and their families on how to recycle and compost at Stanford. While all incoming students are required to take the online waste reduction training as part of their orientation, the friendly reminder at the bin reinforces that knowledge and helps normalize responsible waste sorting – a key to building a culture of waste reduction and achieving the university’s zero waste goals.
As the new academic year kicks off, refresh your waste sorting knowledge by taking the seven-minute training and completing the game!
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