The Commercial Services team have recently signed up to the Sustainable SU’s Charter, a collaboration between several Students’ Unions, NUS and SOS UK.
In line with our commitment to sustainability, the Commercial Services team have recently signed up to the Sustainable SU’s Charter, a collaboration between several Students’ Unions, NUS and SOS UK.
The aim of the Charter is to unite Students’ Union’s in fostering sustainable practices aligned with an ambition to deliver choice, nutrition and affordable food service and retail solutions within a modelled Net Zero plan, promoting education and awareness, adopting sustainable practices, offering sustainable food and beverage options and measuring and reporting on progress.
The Charter is underpinned by 12 commitments, some of which have been completed or progressed already through our sustainability work over the last couple of years. These include promotion of vegetarian and vegan options, equal pricing for plant-based alternatives, reduction of single-use packaging, and supporting a transition to sustainable clothing supply.
Work has also started on several other commitments. We have pledged to accurately measure and publish our scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions and recently completed the initial data gathering as part of the project with Energise, a net zero consultant. We have our first meeting as a group next week, to discuss the findings and start to formulate an agreed carbon reduction strategy.
Work is also underway on our commitment to publish carbon labelling information on our menu in Union 2, having recently met with Klimato for on-boarding to their online toolkit for recipe creation. Once work is complete, students will be able to make informed choices based on a simple labelling system.