Monday, 19 December 2022
You have helped to raise almost £90,000 to fund vital research into heart and circulatory diseases by donating items that may otherwise have gone into landfill.
Together with students from Nottingham Trent University, you donated a staggering 6,230 bags of unwanted items in 2022 to the British Heart Foundation, as part of the Pack for Good Campaign.
Raising £87,220 through the sale of the goods at the charity’s network of shops, the donations also diverted almost 50 tonnes from landfill. This is equivalent to 294,163 kg of C02 emissions!
To date, since becoming involved with the BHF campaign, students in Nottingham have donated up to £1.6 million and have diverted 919 tonnes of waste from landfill – that’s the equivalent weight of 131 African male elephants.
The Pack for Good campaign is a perfect example of the environmental credentials of the city’s two universities, which are among the most sustainable universities in the world. Nottingham Trent and the University of Nottingham were recently ranked second and third respectively in the UI Green Metric, the only university ranking in the world that measures each participating university’s commitment in developing an ‘environmentally friendly’ infrastructure. The rankings look at six indicators: setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transportation, and education.