From an email recently circulated around campus:
UC’s Sustainable Practices Policy establishes goals in 12 areas of sustainable practices: green building, clean energy, climate protection, transportation, sustainable operations, zero waste, procurement, foodservice, water, health care, performance assessment, and health and well-being.
The UC is mandated to “engage in environmental preferred purchasing (EPP)”, and thusly, effective immediately, UCLA will not support the purchase of single use plastic bottles, and has a goal in place to eliminate all single-use plastics by 2023. Please consider this as you plan events and make purchases for consumable items such as water, sodas, and other single use beverages. Central has said that they will no longer permit those expenses. This includes plastic water bottle purchases from vendors such as Office Depot. Campus has recently denied at least one known purchase.
Details at https://purchasing.ucla.edu/sustainable-purchasing.
https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/plastics.mp3
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