Looking for ways to get various environmental messages across to your building or Department? Download any of our posters and resources on this page to help spread the message and raise awareness. Feel free to let use know if you have any ideas for new designs or issues that you would like to see available too!
Don't forget we also have a series of guidance documents and templates which you may find useful.
Energy
You are welcome to download and print the A4 version from these PDFs:
- Heading home for the weekend: Give it a break
- Turning off your computer: What do you do at night?
- Saving energy: Challenging you
- Switch on to Switching Off
- Take the stairs: Awkward Silences
- Saving Energy: Kettle
- Spotlight on Energy
Green Labs
Waste and Recycling
The University's waste contract is due to be retendered, which may impact on relevance of posters in the near future.
- What goes into Recycling bins?
- What goes into General Waste bins?
- What goes into Food Waste bins?
- What goes into Glass Recycling bins?
- Pictorial bin label - Mixed recycling
- Pictorial bin label - General waste
- Pictorial bin label - Food Waste
- Pictorial bin label - Glass waste
- Waste facts
- Reconsider your refuse - top tips (for sites using Vegware)
- Reconsider your refuse - top tips
- Recycling: Reduce, re-use, recycle
- Recycling: large recycling sign
- Waste: large landfill sign (N.B. now obsolete in University buildings).
- Reduce Paper Use
- WARPit poster (three versions)
- Recycling: large sign for departments embedded in Addenbrookes Hospital
- Bin labels for departments embedded within Cambridge University Hospital
- Recycling rate poster (figures to populate this can be sourced here)
- KimTech RightCycle glove recycling scheme posters (please contact sustainability@admin.cam.ac.uk for full guidance before setting up a glove collection in your department).
Travel
- Cycle security poster
- Be Safe Be Seen - Cycle safety poster
- Cycle 'M'Check
- Get fitter with Cyclescheme
Other posters
- Join our Green Impact team! (portrait and landscape versions)
- Play your part in the Cambridge Green Challenge
- We can achieve great things together - facts and figures poster
- "We're taking part in Green Impact Labs"
- Join our Green Impact team! (portrait and landscape versions)
- Play your part in the Cambridge Green Challenge
- We can achieve great things together - facts and figures poster
- "We're taking part in Green Impact Labs"
- "We're taking part in Green Impact" poster
- Green Impact Poster Template
- Staff and student induction poster
- University of Cambridge KeepCups poster
- Challenging you to reduce water
- Weekly green thoughts (from the Department of Plant Sciences) - part
- Weekly green thoughts (from the Department of Plant Sciences) - part 2
- Weekly green thoughts (from the Department of Plant Sciences) - part
Travel maps
- Site travel guide - Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Site travel guide - Downing and New Museum site
- Site travel guide - Old Addenbrooke's site and Old Press/ Mill Lane
- Site travel guide - Sidgwick site and University Library
- Site travel guide - Madingley Rise
- Site travel guide - West Cambridge site
Email footers
As well as posters, one great way to spread environmental messages is through email footers or clickable web banners. The Sustainability Team has a range of footers that University staff and students are welcome to use. Pick your favourite and simply follow these steps to apply it to your email signature (if you use Outlook, otherwise the instructions may vary).
1) Go to file on your Outlook window and click on “options”. Your signature can be found under the “mail” tab.
2) Copy the image from the document above by highlight the image and selecting "copy".
3) Paste the image into your email. signature.
4) If you want to add a link to the footer, you can then select the pasted image, click on the 'hyperlink' button and paste in the web link you want to use.
5) Click done, and open a new email to check the footer displays correctly.
- Join Our Green Impact Team
- Sustainability Champion (for use by Sustainability Champions only)
- Don't bin it, WarpIt
- Don't bin it, WarpIt 2
Stickers
The Sustainability Team has a range of stickers for departments to use to promote the Switch Off message! A limited stock of stickers are available to order from the team, or we can provide you with the sticker templates to print these yourself using commonly-available sticker formats - email us for more details.
The stickers are designed to help remove the barrier of a lack of clarity over what can and cannot be switched off. We suggest labelling key switches and plugs with one of our clear-cut messages to help equipment users to understand their responsibilities.
Stickers available to request: (landscape and portrait available)
- Switch off after use
- You can switch me off
- Switch off when leaving (3 versions)
- Ask XXX before switching off
- Never switch me off
- Shut the sash
- Please report leaking taps
- Fume cupboard - long strip
Email to Request stickers from the Sustainability Team.
Thermometers
Are you always arguing about temperature in your office? Send us an email to request one of our thermometers that indicates suggested temperature ranges (subject to availability).
Remember: always try to dress for the weather (don’t expect your building to be ice cold in the summer or tropical in the winter). If your office or building has an over-heating or over-cooling issue that cannot be resolved internally, please report the matter to the Maintenance Helpdesk (ext. 37784).