the UW Sustainability blog
the UW Sustainability blog
If you’ve been to a basketball or volleyball game this year, you’ve likely seen signs and bins asking you to return your reusable cup. Or you got a drink from the concession stand in a reusable cup, and you found the extra bin for its return.
This is the second year UW Athletics has used reusable cups, and this year the program has expanded. The Reusable Cup Program is a program working to reduce waste in the...
Hello everyone! My name is Brianna Blanchard (she/her) and I am beyond thrilled to be joining UW Sustainability as a Student Sustainability Intern. I'm a fourth-year student majoring in Environmental Public Health at UW with an interest in environmental engineering. Having grown up in Seattle, being surrounded by the beautiful nature of Washington State inspired my career goals to engage in people-centered environmental work.
Through previous roles with the UW Office of Undergraduate Research, UW EarthLab, foundry10, and the Washington NASA Space Grant, I've had the opportunity to...
The Washington State Recycling Association (WSRA), a statewide nonprofit committed to promoting and advancing waste reduction practices and policies in the Northwest and beyond, is now accepting applications for a scholarship to attend its annual conference. The conference will be May 4-7, 2026, at the Tulalip Resort Casino in Marysville.
The scholarship covers the cost of hotel accommodations during the conference, educational sessions and networking opportunities, as well as WSRA membership dues for the remainder of 2026. Scholarship applications are due on March 6...
The University of Washington was given a Gold-level Bicycle Friendly University award by the League of American Bicyclists in recognition of the UW's achievements in promoting and enabling safe, accessible bicycling on campus.
The UW last earned the Gold-level recognition in 2018. UW Transportation Services encourages bicycling as an easy option for transportation and provides amenities including over 600 secure bike lockers & 15 bike houses as well as bike programming and a free helmet program (available at the ...
The University of Washington will host the 2026 Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) on the Seattle campus March 2-4, 2026.
WOHESC brings together staff, faculty and students from schools across our region as well as community partners to advance sustainability in higher education. The conference will be held primarily at the UW's Husky Union Building. WOHESC conferences feature presentations from a wide variety of sustainability practitioners in sessions, keynotes, panel discussions, workshops...
SEED & UW Recycling are hosting a Husky Goods thrift swap event on November 20, 2025 from 6 - 8 p.m in the Spratlen Hall Learning Resource Center.
The event is open to all UW students on the Seattle campus. Bring items you no longer need and swap them for something new to you - FOR FREE.
The University of Washington Seattle campus won the education & awareness category in the 2025 Campus Race to Zero Waste Case Study Competition.
UW Recycling led the University's Campus Race to Zero Waste (CRZW) efforts and wrote the supporting case study. The UW has participated in the national competition (previously called RecycleMania) since 2012. ...
We've all had those moments - holding an item over the recycling bin and trying to decide where it goes. Should it go in recycling? Compost? Landfill?
Here are five tips from UW Recycling to help you recycle properly on the Seattle campus.
As we get ready for a new school year to begin, I’m excited to see the campus come alive again with the energy of our students. It’s why we are here as a University, and why we are committed to working toward a more sustainable future for everyone.
There’s a lot of challenges around this work now, but the UW is still all-in on sustainability, and we know our community is too. Our office works with people across the UW every day on sustainability efforts, from operational staff to committed faculty to the students who push us to embody our mission and vision. We know we can’t make a...
The Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF) is now accepting applications for the Fall cycle of large grants (more than $5,000). The CSF is a student-run and student-funded program at the University of Washington working towards a justice-centered sustainability movement. CSF grants are available to all students or RSOs on the Seattle campus, as well as staff or faculty working with students.
Letters of Intent for large grants will be accepted in this cycle until November 3rd. Applications for...