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This is a popular statement that promotes sustainability on campus.
What is "Make Orange Green"?
When something is able to decompose into nutrient-rich soil.
What is Compostable?
This automaker is the largest producer of electric vehicles in the world.
What is Tesla?
A sustainable brand that is known for its durable outdoor goods.
What is Patagonia?
Somewhere you can go on campus to get secondhand clothes for events such as career fairs.
What is Smokey's closet?
An organization on campus striving to reduce single-use plastic on campus.
What is Plastic Free UT?
Three R words that go alonng with waste disposal.
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
This company, known for itsathletic wear is, is reducing waste by creating products from recycled ocean plastics.
What is Adidas?
An online clothing brand known for being extremely unsustainable.
What is Shein?
A place students can go to get free meals on campus and where unused food from the dining hall often goes.
What is Big Orange Pantry?
The year UTK plans to be carbon neutral by.
8 million metric tons of this end up in the ocean each year
What is Plastic?
This Global Coffee Chain is committed to ethically sourcing 100% of its coffee beans by 2025.
What is Starbucks?
The approximate number of gallons of water it takes to make a pair of jeans.
What is 1500-2000 gallons?
The store located on 915 22nd St that gives away gently used clothes to people of the UTK community at no cost!
What is UTK Free Store?
The name of the funding for sustainable action on campus.
What is The Green Fee?
A change that can be made in a person's diet to reduce their carbon footprint.
What is eating less meat/becoming vegetarian?
This global beverage company aims to replenish 100% of its water usage by 2030, primarily in water-stressed areas.
What is Coca-Cola?
An article of clothing is worn on average this number of times before it is discarded.
What is 7-10 times?
A campus garden that serves as a living lab to create hands-on experience for students.
What is The Grow Lab?
The number of LEED certified buildings on UTK's campus
What is 3?
2023's greenest state.
What is Vermont?
This tech giant powers all of its data centers with 100% renewable energy and is working towards becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
What is Google?
The number of tons of clothing that ends up in landfills every year in the US.
What is between 10.7-11.9 million tons?
An office on campus that you can go to to hear about volunteer opportunities, careers, the green fee, and more.
What is The Office of Sustainability?