{"id":246,"date":"2024-10-28T15:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:47:34","slug":"sustainability-tips-for-visiting-the-university-of-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2024\/10\/28\/sustainability-tips-for-visiting-the-university-of-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability tips for visiting the University of Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are working to make our venue more sustainable, but we need YOUR help! We can all reduce our impact on the environment by making choices. As a visitor you have a very important role to play in helping us to conserve our natural assets and become a more sustainable venue.<\/p>\n<p>1. Explore the campus and discover our fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sustainability\/kentcog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Oasis Garden<\/a> by following our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sustainability\/our-campus\/biodiversity\/sdg-trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Development Goals trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sustainability\/waste-and-recycling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Separate your waste<\/a>. We operate general waste, food waste, and mixed recycling facilities in all our buildings and accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>3. Switch it off. Please switch off electrical items when your room is unoccupied and keep windows closed if radiators are on. If your radiator is fitted with a control valve, this can be adjusted. We suggest a mid-setting of 3 is a good compromise between being warm and reducing energy use.<\/p>\n<p>4. Leave the car at home and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/transport\/plan-your-journey\/plan-your-public-transport-route\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel by public transport<\/a> instead. The campus is ideally located within easy reach of the bus and railway stations. The city centre is also only a short 25 minute walk away and you can enjoy spectacular views over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury-cathedral.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canterbury Cathedral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>5. Think before you pick up freebies \u2013 only take items that you need and will use. Return unused conference materials to the local organiser to reuse or recycle.<\/p>\n<p>6. Discover local businesses and produce, they give you a flavour of the area and help support local communities. We are fortunate to have some fantastic producers of food, drink and independent businesses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canterbury<\/a>. Ask us about the local farmers market and new plastic-free Refillery shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are working to make our venue more sustainable, but we need YOUR help! We can all reduce our impact on the environment by making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2024\/10\/28\/sustainability-tips-for-visiting-the-university-of-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82915,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291428,291715,957],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}