Campus Sustainability News
News on campus sustainability initiatives, emerging programs, rankings, awards, student initiatives, green teams, and more from across the Cornell University campus.

Get your game face on! It's almost time for Cornell to compete against other campuses to reduce waste, recycle more.

Tompkins County Recycling and Materials Management now charges a fee for all televisions and monitors.

Find out where you can sustainably dispose of recyclable goods, and odd items like electronics, your energy bar wrapper and much more!

Campus plastic bag recycling bins are being phased out across Cornell effective this summer, 2019. Learn why this effort is a part of a positive change in New York State recycling and single-use plastic laws.

See this year's rankings from Cornell's participation in the six week RecycleMania competition. 2019 marked the 10th year of competition with other campuses nationwide to reduce waste, increase recycling, and collect compostable and electronic recycling materials.

A new office supply re-use station has opened for employees in Facilities & Campus Services.

A pilot in three campus retail locations has focused on reducing single-use plastic waste from individual baked goods.

Cornell dove into its 10th year of participating in the sustainability contest “RecycleMania” — a continent-wide, two-month-long tournament in which universities compete to generate the least waste and recycle the most.

It has been a year since China’s “Green Wall” took effect. If you've been struggling to understand the impact of recycling changes, take a look at this helpful summary of the impact on recycling rules in our community and across the U.S.

Cornell’s Procurement and Payment Services is advancing the capacity for users on campus and central administrators to track sustainable purchases from different types of organizations. The new tracking efforts will help demonstrate the percentage of funds spent supporting sustainable business.