Our green achievements

We're launching the Student Switch Off campaign in September 2012, pitting halls against each other to see which hall is the most energy efficient and offering great prizes to the winners!

We've set ourself long term targets to reduce our carbon footprint by 40% by 2020 and our energy consumption by 15% by 2015.

Already in less than a year we've reduced our electricity consumption by 10.25% and our gas consumption by 2.82%.

We've introduced mixed recyclable bins in all common rooms and outside all Derby halls.

Our 2012 Moving out campaign helped us collect 204 bags and 14 boxes of food for charity.

We're trialling a food recycling scheme at Laverstoke Court and it's going really well.

We've installed save-a-flush devices in toilets at all our halls.

All our vending machines are now on timer switches to save electricity.

We're hoping to reduce road congestion by offering free bike parking at halls.