This year, our group has achieved Silver in the Green Impact award – a sustainability scheme which supports teams who want to improve their sustainability efforts. As part of the scheme, you are given a toolkit with lots of different activities to complete which encourages people to think more about their environmental impact. Each task is assigned a point value, and you need to collect a specific number of points to achieve Bronze, Silver, Gold and Beyond Gold. Check out our other blog posts about our plant-based potluck, and recycling contaminated lab plastics to see some of the things we’ve been up to!
I really enjoyed completing the green impact award this year, some of the tasks really make you think outside of the box – like the biodiversity monitoring activities! I also appreciated that many of the activities are quite group oriented, giving us the added wellbeing benefit of team building as well as encouraging greener practices.
There were plenty of tasks we couldn’t complete this year – we’ll definitely be taking part in 2026 and aiming for Gold!
