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Sustainability update: Trinity 2025

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Welcome to the latest sustainability update, bringing you termly updates on all things environmental that are happening in and around the college!

Operations Manager Elaine Huckson writes

As summer approaches, we’re shining a light on sustainability at Green Templeton. From celebrating Fairtrade and sharing eco-friendly tips to launching our brand new Swap Shop, there are lots of ways to get involved. Read on to find out more and join us in making a difference.

Have you seen this?

Giorgia Dal Fabbro (DPhil International Development) has created a striking mini-exhibition on Fairtrade cocoa production in Ghana. Read more about Giorgia’s fascinating journey.
Green Templeton has been a Fairtrade-accredited college for the past five years and is proud to work more broadly with Fairtrade Oxford.

Fairtrade Pictures In Stables

Great Big Green Week: Wednesday 11 June

We’re excited to take part in the Great Big Green Lunch, a fun and tasty sustainability challenge from Good Food Oxfordshire. Join us for a shared plant-based lunch featuring locally sourced, seasonal ingredients. Support climate action and book in for lunch!

Green Impact

We’re going for a hat-trick! Green Templeton has participated in the Green Impact awards for several years, achieving the highest accolade — Beyond Gold — for the past two years.
Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme that helps colleges and departments take practical steps to support the University’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy, with goals of net zero carbon and biodiversity net gain by 2035.

Beyond Gold Green Impact Award Slate On Grass In Garden

GTC Swap Shop

Moving out or clearing space? Donate your unwanted items to the new GTC Swap Shop. Incoming students often need basic household items — help us reduce waste and support each other.

Donation dates: 📍 Stables Bar 🕘 Friday 27 June and Monday 30 June, 9:00 to 12:00

Swap Dont ShopItems we can accept:

  • Crockery (not chipped)
  • Glassware (clean and intact)
  • Cutlery (in sets)
  • Cooking equipment (unmarked)
  • Tupperware (with lids, good condition)
  • Laundry baskets
  • Blankets (clean)
  • Bike accessories
  • Winter coats (no other clothing, please)

Where else to donate or recycle

Clothing, accessories, books

  • Mind – 118 Walton Street
  • Sobell House – Little Clarendon Street
  • Mercy in Action – Little Clarendon Street (also accepts small household items)

Clothing, homewares, music

Electrical items

Unused toiletries

  • The Hygiene Bank supports people living in hygiene poverty – Nearest drop-off: Boots, Cornmarket Street

Non-perishable food

  • Donation points include Co-op, Waitrose, M&S, Asda and Sainsbury’s across Oxford
  • You can also use the Stables Gallery donation box on-site

Batteries

  • Use the battery recycling box in the Lodge

WEEE waste (laptops, phones, IT items)

    • Drop at the Lodge. Our supplier will securely erase all data and either refurbish or recycle them.
Created: 4 June 2025