Stanford Wins Outstanding Higher Education Award from National Recycling Coalition
Stanford University is honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Higher Education Award from the National Recycling Coalition. This recognition highlights Stanford's dedication to integrating recycling, resource management, and sustainability into its academic and operational strategies. This is a testament to the incredible partnerships among our students, staff, and faculty. Thank you for making this success possible!
Stanford’s campus serves as a living laboratory where students, faculty, and partners collaborate on solutions for pressing environmental challenges faced on campus and beyond. Students engage in practical, hands-on projects through the Sustainable Stanford Internship program and the Living Lab Fellowship program, moving beyond theoretical learning. Each year, over 50 students are immersed in real-world sustainability challenges on campus like optimizing food recovery, rethinking reuse systems, designing frameworks for waste justice, and developing low-carbon building materials.
Zero waste interns and fellows touring the on-campus recycling yard with staff from Stanford’s Office of Sustainability and its waste service provider.
The award celebrates Stanford's significant work to merge academic theory with practical solutions and applied learning. The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability allows students to study topics from behavior change and recycling systems to the regulatory landscape shaping sustainable practices.
Student Sam Bunke shared, “I never would have guessed that the part-time zero waste internship/fellowship I casually applied for during my Ph.D program would have led to me working on zero waste for three years, and that it would have impacted me to the extent it did, personally and in relation to my future career trajectory.”
This achievement further solidifies Stanford's dedication to equipping the next generation with a diverse range of tools and experiences to address sustainability challenges. We’re grateful to the National Recycling Coalition for this recognition and look forward to continuing our work toward a more sustainable future.
Read the full release here: https://nrcrecycles.org/campus/ and https://nrcrecycles.org/awards/
