Green Impact

The University has a sustainability agenda and there are many things you can take part in to contribute towards personal and University sustainability goals:

• Recycling waste
• Other recycling services on campus
• Cycling and walking schemes
• Take public transport - The University has its own train station, as well as many bus routes 
• Walk - not only is it good for the environment it is good for your mental and physical health
• Sustainable travel tips - tips from National Geographic

Here are a few examples of research and innovative work which has been undertaken on campus by our  researchers. This research has local, national and international significance:

• Recycling rare earth magnets
  Researchers at the Birmingham Energy Institute have been working on sustainable recycling of magnets
• Railway decarbonisation
  Researchers at CERD are looking at railway decarbonisation
• Birmingham Plastics Network Web page
  The Birmingham Plastics Network are working with industry to "shape the fate and future of plastics"
• The Birmingham Energy Institute: A new institute which is focused on creating technology and guiding policy which will shape the energy solutions of tomorrow.
• BISCA campus based research institute 
• The School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences also undertake research activity across different modules in their degree programmes