Events

Get familiar with the 10 R's© and learn how to become mates with your waste!

Join UQ Sustainability’s Christine McCallum in a discussion about the different types of plastics that are part of our lives, which ones can be recycled and how this happens, what governments are doing to change the tide of plastics, and where we fit in as consumers.

Get stuck into National Recycling Week with your workplace.Host a recycling trivia session and challenge your colleagues and bosses to see how much they really know about recycling.

Is your kitchen cupboard overflowing with mismatched mugs? Do you have old tea cups with missing saucers hiding in your China cabinet? If the answer is yes, it might be time for a clean out! UQ Sustainability and UQ Wellness are teaming up for an upcoming series of workshops using old mismatched mugs to create desktop plants. We need your help!

We’re inviting the UQ community to participate in the Be Green, Be Kind, Be Giving Campaign, which is an opportunity for UQ staff and students to declutter their lives and give away their unwanted stuff to help our local community.

Got old e-waste lying around at home that you're not sure what to do with? Bring it to be recycled, all week at Campbell Place!

Plogging – the act of picking up litter while out on a run or walk, is a great way to get outside and help our environment! Get your friends and family together, or go solo, and see how much rubbish you can collect throughout SWOTVAC & National Recycling Week. Email us a picture of the rubbish you collect to get a prize!

The Warwick Solar Farm team and volunteers from GAP will be spending the day out at the solar farm mustering the +750 sheep.

Contribute to sustainability at UQ and experience professional development opportunities! Nominations for GAP's 2022 Council are open until Sunday 24 October. Apply today!

Join the UQ Green Ambassador Program (GAP) for a bushcare working bee on a Sunday morning to celebrate #NationalTreeDay. Help the environment, meet like-minded people, and enjoy fellowship afterwards!

Join the UQ Green Ambassador Program (GAP) from your very own couch for an online movie night featuring the documentary 'Minimalism'.

Join our Micro-mobility & Active Transport Workshop and help inform the rollout of infrastructure on and around campus to support the use of micro-mobility and active transport modes.

The Green Ambassador Program (GAP) are inviting you to play sustainability-themed online Pictionary!

Join UQ Sustainability, the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), and Future Dreaming Australia for this fascinating webinar!