Ongoing Projects
- Increase awareness of GREENgineering and encourage participation
- Identify faculty and staff leaders to facilitate Green Certifications of labs, classroom, workplaces and events (Completed)
- Increase the number of bottle-filling water fountains
- Reduce the number of disposable plastic bottles sold through vending machines (Completed)
- Compile 'green vendors' and green-event planning tips for event organizers (Completed)
- Communicate and improve signage related to recycling mixed material, plastic, styrofoam, and plastic-film
On-Deck Projects
- Duke Engineering-wide effort to achieve 100 percent Green Certification for laboratories
- Battery recycling common area
- Printer cartridge recycling common area
- Planning for electronic waste recycling
- Investigation of composting with Duke campus partners
- Identify challenges that can be assigned to student design teams, for credit
- Develop systems to measure and report savings of energy and other resources