Social Responsibility

Local Initiatives

• Recycling on campus – all soda and juice bottles as well as office paper, ink cartridges, cardboard, aluminum and used fryer oil
  
  
• Local foods - SInce 2006, Ursinus College Dining Services and Sodexo have been making a
  concentrated effort to purchase locally grown and produced foods. With this effort, we
  have defined ‘local’ as a 100 mile radius from the Ursinus College campus. We are purchasing much of the produce from farms in New York and Pennsylvania.
  
  
• Organic – we offer over 25 organic items on a consistent basis.  Our retail operation provides the following organic items: beverages, yogurts and smoothies, snacks, frozen entrees, nutritional bars and produce.
  
  
• Fair Trade – Jazzman’s coffee is offered at two locations on campus with a wide variety of Fair Trade coffees.  Green Mountain coffee is also available in resident dining
  
  
• Ecolab Apex Green Cleaning Products
  
  
• Reusable mugs - Look for recycle mugs in the Food Court.  They will be sold at a discount and encourage the use of a recycled mug.  Or use your own mug to help reduce waste!
  
  
• Trayless dining!  When plates are used without trays...waste is decreased by 1oz per plate!  Water and detergent use is also decreased

• Bottled Water

           “After meetings this summer with Environmental Studies Faculty, as another step, along with our new efforts

             at composting, and such other campus measures as our Bike Share, all tied to the President's and the college's

             commitment to the nationwide Campus Climate Initiative, we are reducing the consumption of bottled water on

             campus and thus the destructive impact of used bottles on our environment. 

             Dining Services will discontinue the sale and use of bottled water in our operations and for catered events.

             Water filtering dispensers have been installed in our operations as an alternative to bottled water.

             Ursinus College obtains its water supply from the Collegeville-Trappe Water Company, which provides a verifiable

             source for clean, tested drinking water."