Welcome back students!
So we’ve now reached the start of the 2018/2019 academic year, I hope your all as excited as we are! A new year feels like a new start, does anyone else feel that way? Let us know how your first week is going @UKCStudent
For now I am just going to go over a few...
I would say recently that the idea of giving to those less fortunate has grown to the forefront of lots of people’s minds. For me I always think about how I can help others by #donating items that I don’t need anymore.
In today’s post I want to focus on FareShare. FareShare is a charity aimed...
Can you believe that next Friday is the end of the 2018-2019 academic year! Where has this year gone?! #timeflies I definitely can’t! It must be a sign that I am getting older when I can’t believe how quickly time is passing by!
Even though it has been a very stressful time for all the students...
Hello and welcome to our blog post about Waste management at the University of Kent. It has been some time since we have last wrote a post (we’re sorry!) and so we thought it was time to refresh your memory of waste management at the University and what this entails.
All waste management is...
Welcome to the first in the series of ‘what happens to our…’ I thought that it would be a good idea to go through what happens to all the different types of waste that we produce here at the University of Kent, since it’s been a number of years since we have last explained.
General waste is the...
Welcome to the second addition in the series of ‘What happens to our…’ This time were going to be talking about the mixed recycling. Mixed recycling production in the 2018/2019 academic year totalled 322.048 tonnes which is the weight of 1 baby blue whale and was 24% of the total waste created...
Welcome to the third addition in the series of ‘What happens to our…’ This time were going to be talking about glass. Glass production in the 2018/2019 academic year totalled 56.06 tonnes which is the weight of 11 African elephants and was 4% of the total waste created in that year.
Our glass...
Welcome to the fourth in the series of what happens to our… Today we are going to be talking about reuse items with the British Heart Foundation. I thought it would be a good idea to split three different types of reuse facilities on campus so that each can be fully explained.
The British Heart...
Welcome to the fifth in the series of what happens to our… Today we are going to be talking about reuse items with Stuff (Student Foodbank and Freecycle) which is run in collaboration between the Estates Department and Kent Union.
Stuff is a flagship project at the University in which the aim...
Welcome to the first edition in our series on sustainable ablutions. This time we are going to be talking about Faith in Nature Conditioner.
Faith in Nature, established in 1974, believes in harnessing the power of nature without harming it in the process. They state that doing right by the...
Hydroponics School
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Hydroponics School is IN. This Fall, American Hydroponics is offering an intensive hydroponics school short course designed and proven to get budding hydroponic food crop growers started off right. Be aware of would be internet...
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Most of our fans appreciate the potential for food production that hydroponic systems hold for our growing planet population by way of improved yields using less water in reduced space—and with a higher degree of sustainability versus...
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Sinclair College student designs aeroponic system, plans to make fresh produce more accessible
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