9TH - 13TH NOVEMBER @ UOW

The University will be participating in Planet Ark's National Recycling Week, Nov 9-13. You can join in the fun and learn a little more about recycling in any or all of the following ways:

1. Recycle Right to get a Reusable Coffee Cup
2. Environmental Champions Invitation and Information Session
3. Filing Fling for Paper Recycling

Recycle Right Quiz

Due to popular demand we have had to close the quiz on Monday 9th November.  Thank you to the 250 people who have completed the quiz since it opened on Wednesday 4th November. 

Those that completed the quiz and have not already collected their free limited edition coffee cup can do so on Tuesday 17 November from 10-11am at Rush Coffee.

Environmental Champions Update Session:
Wednesday 11 November, 10-11am, Moot Court, Room 202, Buidling 67

Current Environmental Champs and those keen to join are invited to attend an information session on recycling and other environmental initiatives. Staff will hear from Mr Chris Grange, Vice-Principal (Administration) regarding the Senior Executives’ view of environmental initiatives. Alison Scobie, Environmental Compliance and Education Officer in the ESI Team, will then talk about the team’s work over the past year and the strategy moving into 2010. This will include outlining the draft communication strategy for environmental champions and the ESI team. There will also be time for some fun activities, to meet some of the University’s Environmental Advisory Committee member and enjoy a lovely morning tea.

Please RSVP for catering purposes to environment_team@uow.edu.au by Monday 9 November

Filing Fling for Paper Recycling - ALL WEEK

Planet Ark is promoting paper recycling as one theme of National Recycling Week. They estimate that only 1 in 10 pieces of printed paper gets recycled, with most ending up filed away never to be read again, or in the bin.

UOW is adopting this theme and encouraging you to use National Recycling Week as your incentive to spend just 15 minutes doing a quick clean up of your desk/office and sort out your paper resources.  Determine if the documents are a UOW record.  Refer to Records Management Policies.  Once you have confirmed that these documents are not UOW records they can be placed into the blue bins for recycling.  If you are unsure about what you need to do, please send an email to the Records Management team at rm-request@uow.edu.au or call x5059.

Alternatively, clean up your shared drive so that people can find things and not print out wrong copies of documents. Get your team involved to make it more fun.

Let the ESI team know you or your team are participating by emailing: environment_team@uow.edu.au and you or your team could win a prize up to $100 (individual) or $300 (team).