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