Waste Generation and Management at the University of A Coruña

Torrijos, Verónica; Soto, M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_119-1

Cited by 3 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The main areas identified with capacity for action at center level were energy, water, waste, and healthy living, each of which accounts for between 10 and 20% of responses (Figure 2A). This is consistent with the attention paid by the UDC to these themes [7,18,19,20]. The rest of the themes appear in second place, with percentages close to 5% (climate change, sustainable mobility, volunteering, environment), or even with lower adherence (green purchasing, biodiversity).…”

Section: Areas Of Actionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Evaluation of the Green Campus Program at the University of A Coruña

Dono,

Torrijos,

Soto

2023

J. Sustainability Perspect.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Green Campus (GC) is an international program launched by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) which includes the philosophy, methodology and experience of Eco-schools, adapted to the specific university needs and problems. Through its seven-steps methodology, the GC program can be considered a kind of environmental management system, which includes external evaluation and pursues continuously improved environmental performance. The GC program began at the UDC in 2014, with autonomous implementation at the center level, promoting bottom-up initiatives in combination with other top-down initiatives. In 2022 it had reached all 20 UDC teaching centers, more than half of them having already achieved program certification (green flag award). This paper analyses the evolution and performance of the GC program at UDC, through two on-line surveys addressed to 1) students in general, and 2) coordinators and members of the environmental committees. Some difficulties identified are low involvement and participation of students and overload of tasks of all kinds, which hinders the volunteer participation of committee members. Nevertheless, a good overall rating was given to the program from participating staff and students. A SWOT analysis is also presented, summarizing the information obtained through surveys, together with the Office for the Environment's experience in the coordination of the different centers involved in the program. Finally, a strategy is proposed to improve the visibility of the GC among students and enhance their participation.

show abstract

Section: Areas Of Actionsupporting

confidence: 84%

Evaluation of the Green Campus Program at the University of A Coruña

Dono,

Torrijos,

Soto

2023

J. Sustainability Perspect.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The University of Coruña has been developing a continuous improvement program for sustainability including the creation of environmental committees in the centers (Green Campus Program), the development of various sectorial plans (transportation, energy, water, waste), and environmental initiatives: selective collection and waste recycling, composting, energy and water saving, renewable energy, loan of bicycles, biodiversity, control of exotic invasive species, volunteers participation in river monitoring, etc [4]. The international evaluation Green Metric for 2017 to 2022 has placed the UDC among the 100 first most sustainable universities in the world, as well as among the top 5 Spanish.…”

Section: Sustainability At the Udcmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Campus, Home, City: Laboratories of Change’, the Education or Sustainability Program of the University of a Coruña

Soto,

Marcote,

Dopico

et al. 2023

J. Sustainability Perspect.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The program 'Campus, home, city: laboratories of change', aims to promote the students and citizenship formation in the basic concepts of environmental and social sustainability, responding to the priority challenges for our society such as climate change, waste production, circular economy or sustainable mobility. The proposed service-learning, hands-on activities takes advantage of the housing, the university and the city as places for researching and experimentation. A feature of this program is the use of online ICT tools for fieldwork, in particular the survey and mapping of waste generation and footprint, water use efficiency, transport footprint and consumption of energy. The project has the collaboration of the Alcoa Foundation and is now in its 6th Edition, adding up the participation of more than 11,000 people. In the last two editions, the project has been extended to primary, secondary and vocational training centers in the region of A Mariña.

show abstract