Sustainability Month

An exciting quest awaits you! Get ready to put your sustainability hats on for a fun scavenger hunt and be in the chance to win one of two £25 ethical shopping vouchers plus a cool plant. 

Submit using this entry form by 17:00 on 27 March, using photo submissions for all 10 tasks, including the poem task (you can make the poem look cool with pictures and cool layouts). Please note photos cannot be larger than 16 MB.

One prize will go to the best submission and the other will be selected randomly out of all the submissions.

Brought to you by Civil and Environmental Engineering Sustainability Champions.

Scavenger Hunt tasks:

1. An upcycled item - Evidence: Photo of upcycled item and description demonstrating understanding of how the item is upcycled 

2. A straight A menu from Taste Imperial outlets (three course meal made up of Taste Imperial items and everything has to be A rated under the carbon labelling system) - Evidence: photo of food items with carbon scores 

3. A reusable cup or returned coffee cup (using Taste Imperial's new resuable coffee cup trial system) - Evidence: photo of person returning their cup or photo of your reusable cup. 

4. The prettiest flower on campus (bonus point for including its name!) -- this cannot be a person - Evidence: Photo of plant and name. 

5. The prettiest bird on campus (bonus point for including its name!) -- this still cannot be a person - Evidence: Photo of bird and name. 

6. Greenery in your department/building - Evidence: Photo of plants in department

7.  A food waste bin - Evidence: Photo of a campus food waste bin

8. A bike repair kit or somewhere to fix your bike - Evidence: photo of puncture repair kits sold in union shop in SK or photo of your bike at a Dr Bike session

9. Your building’s energy rating - Evidence: photo of the energy rating sign in your department

10. An acrostic poem on theme about Sustainability Month: creativity, community or challenge. 

Take on our Instagram challenge for your chance to win one of two £25 ethical shopping vouchers! 

Tag @sustainableimperial in your Instagram stories or posts showing you demonstrating one of the 9 things you can do to be more sustainable at Imperial such as minimising waste, being more energy efficient or sharing your experiences to inspire others.  

Entries valid throughout March.  

Students and young people aged 11 – 25 are invited to design a mural for Imperial College’s White City campus with the theme: What does a thriving, vibrant city full of nature and innovation look and feel like? 

The winning design will be painted by a professional artist in spring 2026 and runner-up designs will be part of an exhibition alongside. Cash prizes will be given to the winner (£250) and two runners up (£150 each). 

This will be the Grantham Institute’s 14th mural drawing attention to the climate crisis. To find out more check out our webpage where you’ll find an info pack and entry form: www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/events/grantham-art-prize/

Turn your active travel into a masterpiece with our Strava Art challenge, brought to you by Move. 

This challenge is all about Strava Art — drawing shapes, words, or pictures on the map using your run, ride, or walk. Get creative with your route and let the GPS be your canvas.

Alternatively, use can use the ‘Strava overlay’ function to add a photo to your Strava route.

How to enter:

1. Create a piece of Strava Art using any activity (run, ride, walk, etc.).
2. Upload it to Strava.
3. Name the activity and/or add a screenshot clearly showing your artwork.
4. Share the activity screenshot with Move by midnight on Tuesday 31 March. To send us your image please:
1. Direct Message us or Tag us on Instagram (@move.imperial)
2. Share on Viva Engage using #SustainabilityMonth & #StravaArt

Prizes:

6 x £50.00 Eco Gift Vouchers to be won!

Winners will be announced w/c 13 April.

Put your skills to the test and play Game Development society’s new sustainability-themed game launching in March! 

You may have noticed our new carbon labelling popping up on menus across campus. We use data from our carbon labelling partner My Emissions to rate all the dishes our chefs produce, so that our community can make more informed decisions about the carbon impact of the meals they're choosing. 

For Sustainability Month, we've turned the SCR into an exclusively low-carbon venue! We'll only be serving dishes rated A, B and C under our carbon rating system, not only to demonstrate how simple swaps can make a difference without impacting flavour, but to show all the delicious ingredients you can choose, at home or eating out, that have a low carbon impact.

Our Green Team loyalty cards reward our customers for swapping to re-usable containers, helping us to cut down disposables, one of our key sustainability goals. 

Customers can bring any reusable tupperware or container to any of our outlets for a takeaway lunch free of single-use! And if you don't have one of your own already, keep your eyes peeled for our green containers available for purchase at outlets across campus. 

Collect a stamp each time you use a reusable and your sixth meal will be free (in your re-usable container, of course)!

Finish your loyalty card this month in the SCR and you could be selected at the till to win a brand new reusable container.

Designed for the plant-curious among you, our dis-loyalty cards encourage you to cheat on meat and try one of our delicious vegan options. You don't have to be vegan to choose plant-based! If all meat eaters in the UK cut back to eating 50g of less of meat a day, it would reduce emissions by the same amount as taking 8 million cars off the road overnight!

Available at every single outlet, our vegan options are as varied and delicious as our meat dishes, and under the pledge in our Sustainable Food and Drink policy, will never cost more. Collect a stamp every time you choose a vegan option and your sixth vegan meal is on us!

Fill your disloyalty card with five tasty meals from Plantworks in the SCR, and you're in with a chance to win vegan sweets or chocolate at the till point.

Did you know that it takes ~1,000 years for trainers to degrade in landfill? To prevent this; Move have partnered with JogOn to reduce the number of trainers going to landfill whilst helping others around the world.

Here’s how JogOn works:

• Receive unwanted trainers
• Sort trainers to ensure they are paired up
• Inspect and prepare trainers to be distributed or filtered out
• Distribute trainers that still have life in them across 11 hubs in the UK and around the world
• Dispose of those that are “end of life”.

Your job is simple:

• Tie the laces of your unwanted trainers together
• Drop them in a JogOn collection box.

Collection boxes are currently located at Ethos Sports Centre in South Kensington or MediaWorks in White City.

We're trialling a new reusable coffee cup scheme designed to reduce single-use cups across Imperial.

During the trial at The Roastery, you will be able to buy a beverage in one of our Re-Universe cups and pay a £2 deposit. You then have up to 7 days to return your cup to the collection point, and your deposit is refunded when you do so. 

If the trial is successful, we will look to roll it out across more outlets and look into a similar system for food containers. 

During Sustainability Month, you could be randomly selected to get your coffee for free if you use the resuable cup system in The Roastery.