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Sustainability

The Office of Sustainability provides many ways for students, staff, and faculty to get involved and help build a culture of sustainability across campus. From tree planting to grocery shuttles, there's something for everyone.

Monthly Newsletter

Want to know what's happening in the Office of Sustainability? Sign up for our monthly newsletter! At the beginning of every month, we send out the newsletter with upcoming events, campus news, sustainability-related job postings, and much more! 

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Volunteer

Help keep our waterways clean! Our rain garden network treats 400,000 gallons of stormwater EVERY TIME IT RAINS!! We're meeting every third Thursday to weed, mulch, and plant our campus rain gardens to keep them maintained, so they can continue to keep polluted stormwater from entering our waterways. 

We have events every month. For questions regarding upcoming events, please email sustainability@uncw.edu. 

Closet Clean Out 2025 was a success! 

Thank you to this year's community partners: Good Shepherd Center, Infant of Prague, Manos Unidas, Hawk's Harvest, UNCW Library, and Vintage Values! 

This year was the best year yet. We folded, sorted, packed, and processed 13, 802 pounds of materials!

Special thanks to all our volunteers. We had 65 people work 130 hours to help make UNCW more sustainable and keep perfectly good items from the landfill! 

Want to join the fun next year? Keep an eye out around late April when the volunteer list posts. Can't wait to see you there!