Sustainability week is a chance to engage in sustainability initiatives across campus and learn more about what’s going on at the university and in the wider community.
Anyone can attend events and is open to students, academics and the general public. See below for the full schedule:
10-11am Biodiversity walks - Mile End Campus
12pm to 1pm: Presentation on Plastics in the Environment: Where are we at?
Investigating the fate and impacts of plastics in the environment is critical for reaching a sustainable world, and yet the role that plastics play in the environment are not well understood. There are many questions surrounding plastic pollution, for example: How do plastic products degrade when they escape the recycling loop? How do they affect organisms at different levels of biological organisation? Can we replace plastics with viable green alternatives? If this sounds interesting to you and you are keen to learn how you can reduce your plastic footprint, then come and listen to the Queen Mary plastic research group and hear all about the different challenges associated with plastic pollution.
Speakers: Ana Martinez Rodriguez, Nan Wu, Pauline de Bigault de Cazanove & Danielle Marchant
12:00 - 1:30pm Canal Clean-up
12 - 3pm - Bywaters - Talk rubbish in a fun and engaging way.
Location: Library Square
Talk rubbish in a fun and engaging way
What will happen: - A rolling presentation in the background focusing on the streams you currently have on site. - Two VR headsets to showcase the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) at Bromley by Bow.- Display informative signage indicating where the waste goes and what happens to it. The following partners’ products will be on display: Bio Bean – Coffee Logs, Stroodles - Pasta Straws. - Interactive waste sorting game of what stream to use with difficult waste items such as coffee cups and crisp packets. - Offer out complimentary recycled tote bags, recycled notebooks and pens.
1 – 2pm - Virtual - Environment & Health MDT – Monthly Seminar Series
5:30 - 6:30pm: Decarbonising the NHS estate
Location: Neuronpod
10-11am - Biodiversity walk - Mile End Campus
12-1pm -Litter picking - Student Led
2pm - Food Measure & Tasting Competition - Zero Waste Shop
5 - 6:30pm - Model UN style debate - Bancroft 1.02.6
Energy Management and Carbon reduction at QMUL - Carbon numbers
Energy Hub - All day - Carbon numbers
10am to 1pm (1h slots) - From Biomass-waste to Energy Materials: Use of Electrospinning to Process Biomass into Electrodes for Batteries
3 to 7pm - SCR - Communicating the Climate Emergency: From Knowledge to Action
*The event will be photographed and recorded. These photographs and the recording will be used for internal and external promotional purposes only by Queen Mary University of London. If you object to appearing in the photographs and the recording, please let our photographer/videographer know on the day.
11:30-3pm - Bike taxi
Location: Library Square Time: 11:30 - 3pm
Activity: Students will be able to interact with and learn about the BikeWorks Bike Taxi, a sustainable and accessible form of transport! The bike will also be available to take students on short journeys around campus where possible e.g. to the shops, your lectures, to get some food or to the SU hub.
2pm - London Transport Society
2-4pm Virtual - ‘What is the Point of COP 27?’ hosted by the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice, QMUL
5:30- 7:30pm Screening - "Eating Our way to Extinction"
2:30pm Free Bee Keepers & Houseplant talk