Warwick SU’s Environmental Impact

This section of the website provides information about Warwick SU’s direct environmental impact as an organisation.

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Warwick SU Environmental Aspects & Impacts

Aspect – An element of SU activities or products or services that can interact with the environment

Impact – Any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from SU environmental aspects

Aspect	Impact
Waste cooking oil spill	Water pollution or land contamination
Noise from venues or customers leaving premises	Noise nuisance
Water & energy	Water consumption
Water & energy	Discharges to water
Water & energy	Use of gas from National Supply
Waste	Waste management and recycling
Waste	Disposal of clinical waste
Waste	Waste electrical & electronic equipment (WEEE)
Transport	Use of fossil fuel for transport (staff, customers and goods/services)
Procurement	Purchase of non-sustainable goods and services
Procurement	Purchase of sustainable goods and services
Emissions & discharges	Emissions (from heating flues), boilers for heating and hot water
Emissions & discharges	Effluent disposal - (use of municipal water - bathrooms/cleaners, discharge of effluent to sewers)
Emissions & discharges	Surface water run-off to groundwater
Community	Environmental awareness raising initiatives for the community (staff and students)

NUS Green Impact

In 2015, Warwick SU achieved their 6th NUS Green Impact Gold award in a row. The NUS auditor reported that “Warwick SU are consistently high performers when it comes to Green Impact and it's good to see that the enthusiasm is still there. The environment is taken very seriously in every aspect of the Union's activities, which is great to see and a lot of this is because of Green Impact."

More information

Click here to visit the Warwick university sustainability page for keeping up to date with what's happening.