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Sustainable Procurement Policy and Responsible Procurement Checklist

The?Sustainable Procurement Policy?and?The Responsible Procurement Strategy Document ?enable environmental and sustainable considerations in the purchase of all bought goods and services, including consideration on whether existing assets can be reused or shared.

Sustainable Food Policy and Action Plan

The Sustainable Food Policy and Action Plan reflects the principles of the University’s procurement strategy, sustainability goals and climate emergency recommendations, including commitments around responsible sourcing and reducing single use plastic and waste.

Single Use Plastic Strategy

Single-use plastics strategy to reduce single use plastics across campuses.

Circular Economy and Sustainable Resource Management Strategy

In July 2024, UEB approved a new Circular Economy and Sustainable Resource Management Strategy 2024-2030 embedding circular principles, facilitating the elimination of avoidable waste and minimisation of the rest, the reuse of as much possible, and recycling of the remainder. This strategy includes an action plan to encourage the adoption of circular economy principles across all aspects of our activities.

Travel Policy

As a global University that engages with the world through research, field trips, conferences and collaborations the University recognises that travel may be necessary for learning, teaching, research and developing partnerships. Our Travel Policy, launched in Sept 2023, sets out guidance to enable travel to be undertaken in accordance with our values and to meet wider university targets and objectives, including sustainability, focussing travel on low-carbon options. 

Gift it, Reuse it

In Summer 2024 we launched a flagship initiative – Gift it, Reuse it – enabling outgoing students across our halls of residence to donate home essentials for incoming students the following September, free of charge. An estimated 8,000 of the items were taken by arriving students during Welcome Week, and the remaining items were offered out in pop-up shops in Clydesdale House later in the term.

The scheme continues to expand and in summer 2025, we had received 17,635 items, weighing 3,417kg. This is a 102% increase compared to summer 2024. We have also seen items returned to us this year that were taken from the Free Shops in September 2024, demonstrating the circular economy in action!

Gift it Reuse it won first place in the Educational Organisation category of the 蘑菇短视频 Sustainability Awards 2025 and was also shortlisted for the Creating Impact Green Gown Award 2025.

蘑菇短视频 Centre for the Circular Economy

?established to advance the theory and practice of circular economy we deliver impact nationally and internationally through a diverse portfolio of research, education and collaboration activities.

The 蘑菇短视频 Centre for Circular Economy is dedicated to developing, testing and adding to the theory and practice of Circular Economy interventions and real-world implementation. .

The Centre is a leading provider of research led Circular Economy (CE) executive and practitioner . Drawing on the expertise of our research community at the University of 蘑菇短视频, and our excellent relationships with industrial partners, we have curated and shaped inspiring and high impact education and training that enables leadership and managerial capabilities of organisations to deliver effective Circular Economy solutions.

International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management in the Circular Economy 

We are in the new UN-backed International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management in  the Circular Economy (ISC-SRM).  The new centre, which opened in April 2024, is a collaboration between the University of 蘑菇短视频 and University College London (UCL), Brunel University, Swansea University and the British Geological Survey, who together contributed £1.85 million to fund the centre’s technical activities.

It will develop new approaches to the circular economy and resource efficiency to enable carbon reduction and the transition to a greener future as well as ensure the UK can help countries across the world to maximise the environmental and economic opportunities the circular economy offers.