Our Green Values

If you think that ‘being green’ and saving the environment is all about hugging trees and doesn’t apply to you? Think again.

This is the world you’ve inherited, and you can help preserve it for future generations.

Caring For Our Environment

We’re now recycling over 60% of our waste on campus, and are on target for 70% by next year. The University uses a Rocket food waste composter, which uses waste originally destined for landfill and turns it into compost for fertilising the Newton Park campus grounds.

We’ve also invested in a carbon reduction management plan, which will put us in line to achieve a 50% reduction in our carbon emissions by 2020.

Students and staff share a strong environmental ethos and are committed to promoting sustainability and helping to reduce climate change.

So much so, that the University was awarded ‘first class honours’ in the national People & Planet Green League 2011. It was ranked 7th out of 142 UK universities for its environmental policy and performance in areas like carbon emissions, waste recycling, energy efficiency and water consumption.

We’ve also achieved a Platinum award under the national EcoCampus scheme, along with the international environmental management quality standard ISO 14001.

In our teaching, we promote environmental awareness and best practice wherever we can. We don’t use animals as a teaching or research tool either, unless we’re observing and monitoring mammals and birds in their natural habitats for conservation purposes.

And whether you live on campus or not, there are plenty of ways to help do your bit for the environment. And it can be as simple as reducing your CO2 emissions by using public transport, cycling or car-sharing; recycling as much waste as possible, even little things like not boiling a whole kettle for one cup of tea. You could even join our team of staff and student Environment Champions.

Student: Neale Warr Year 3, BSc Environmental Science

“I chose to study at Bath Spa University because of the beautiful surroundings and peaceful location. The campus maintains and achieves high levels of recycling and strives to improve these levels each year and is succeeding.

I study Environmental Science and love the fact that we can use all of the campus for our studies and we can conduct our experiments and observations using a wide range of environments. There is a variety of wildlife and ecosystems on campus that make Bath Spa University unique and one of the best Universities to study Ecology, Environmental management, Biodiversity and Conservation, Environmental change, River Management and Waste Management on your doorstep and carry out Field Ecology and Ecological Assessments.”

EcoCampus

We are part of the national EcoCampus scheme, which is helping us reduce our environmental footprint.

Green Focus

Our work covers many areas from how we travel to how much energy we use and even how we build our buildings.

Fairtrade at Bath Spa

There are over 120 Fairtrade colleges and universities in the UK and Bath Spa University is proud to be named among them. Fairtrade is another step in the University’s commitment to improving our environmental and ethical performance.

Living On A Green Campus

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Contact us

Environment Office,
Bath Spa University,
Newton Park Campus,
Newton St Loe,
Bath, BA2 9BN.

Ola Bankole, Environmental Officer:

Telephone: (01225) 876523.