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Big Win For Waste Diversion
During the 2017 football season, Carter-Finley Stadium diverted 42 percent of gameday waste from landfill through recycling and composting efforts.
2017 Shack-A-Thon | Most Sustainable Shack Award
Shack-a-thon is an annual student-led fundraising event for the Wake County chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Student groups sign up, build a temporary “shack” for...
Students Start Business To Tackle Textile Waste
NC State students and Park Scholars Emily Neville and Carly Kvietok launched Reborn Clothing Co. to revive clothes you no longer wear into new, useful products.
(Re)Styled For Success
Through the Wolfpack Styled clothing reuse program, NC State’s Career Development Center connects students with free professional clothes while also reducing textile waste.
Carter-Finley Expands Compost Effort
When the Wolfpack returns to Carter-Finley Stadium for its first home football game, so will composting and recycling in order to reduce gameday waste.
At This Campus Lab, Worms Eat Your Leftovers
Worms at the NC State Composting Learning Lab recycle organic material like food waste into compost.
Western Manor Apartments Lead Pack In Recycling Competition
In the annual Recyclemania campus competition, residents of NC State's Western Manor Apartments led the way.
Students Donate Leftover Campus Food To People In Need
NC State's student chapter of the Food Recovery Network redistributes leftover food from campus to local nonprofits that address hunger and homelessness.
Students Compost Cotton Waste From Campus Labs
In the College of Textiles, students are exploring how to create a sustainable cotton composting program to reduce waste sent to landfill.
Psychology Students Design Campus Composting Solution
A team of NC State psychology students designed a compost collection system for restrooms in the university’s Talley Student Union.