UCD’s Safety Office invites staff to attend
a one hour session on setting up your office workstation.
An Occupational Health Advisor will demonstrate how
to adjust your chair correctly, good posture at the
desk and how to organise your workstation to suit the
individual. For further information contact Rosaleen
(ext 1333).
Theater O, Newman Building,
Wednesday 14th December 2005, 1 – 2pm.
This year National Recycling Week runs from October
4th -10th. Look out for posters around the campus with
facts and information about recycling. Check out the
Unitel screens around the campus also, with tips on
how you can make every week a recycling week. Click
here for a presentation
on how you can make a change.
An easy to use and access Green Dublin eBulletin has
been developed to enable individuals and groups involved
in environmental activities to exchange information
and promote their activities quickly and effectively.
To subscribe to this e-bulletin just email: greendublinebulletin@dublin.ie
For other environmental information about the city you
live in, check out www.dublin.ie
A new free environmental information portal from Enterprise
Ireland has bee designed specifically to enhance environmental
awareness in Irish industry. For current trends, news
items and useful links go to www.envirocentre.ie
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Chemicals are used in almost every workplace, either
in laboratories, as cleaning agents or in workshops.
Once they are no longer required their waste must be
disposed of according to National and International
regulations. Non labelled items are not permitted for
carriage under such legislation. In an attempt to reduce
such unknown chemicals, the Environmental Unit recommends
that all chemicals, once decanted out of their original
bottles, should be labelled.
This graphic indicators are useful in determining
which items are environmentally sound. Click on the
link below to find out more. If there are any more that
you feel should be included please contact: environment@ucd.ie
Following a very successful pilot project on the Belfield
Campus, where levels of recycling have hit 25% over
the past few months, the scheme has been expanded to
Earlsfort Terrace and Blackrock campuses. Requests for
bins should be emailed to: environment@ucd.ie
Before you throw away your paper, stop and think if
it can be reused for draft printing. Examine the source
of your waste paper and see can it be minimised? When
finished reading newspapers, magazines, bulletins put
them in your nearest bin for paper. This will then be
taken away for recycling! By adopting the Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle attitudes and practices to waste we can reduce
the amount being sent to landfill.
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The University has been requested by the Revenue Commissioners
to centralise and standardise the ordering of DFS and
IMS. In order to do this, a formal application must
be made to the Revenue Commissioners outlining the departments
in which DFS/IMS is used and in what quantities etc.
If your department uses either Duty Free Spirits or
Industrial Methylated Spirits, please download the documents
below and return them to the Environmental Unit in Belfield
House.
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