Sustainability

Welcome to Leckhampton’s Green Site!

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and bio­di­ver­si­ty are impor­tant to Cor­pus Christi Col­lege and we, the post­grad com­mu­ni­ty and Col­lege staff, are giv­ing our best every day to reduce the College’s impact on the envi­ron­ment.

Please find here an overview of our ini­tia­tives and ideas on how you can con­tribute to mak­ing Leck­hamp­ton an even green­er and friend­lier place.

Recycling and Composting

  • You can find recy­cling bins in all build­ings. Not sure what goes in there? Please find a guide on local recy­cling guide­lines here.
  • As a post­grad liv­ing in Leck­hamp­ton, you can sign up for an organ­ic recy­cling scheme to sep­a­rate your organ­ic waste. If you sign up, you will be pro­vid­ed with an organ­ic waste recy­cling bin and respec­tive bin lin­ers.
  • How­ev­er, please note that you will be respon­si­ble for clean­ing and emp­ty­ing the bins your­self in a brown food waste wheel­ie bin (in front of 17 Cran­mer Road or next to the laun­dry room). To sign up, email your Greens and Char­i­ties offi­cer with your name and Leck­hamp­ton room under mcr_green@corpus.cam.ac.uk.
  • A recy­cling box for old bat­ter­ies and car­tridges can be found in the post room.
  • There is a British Heart Foun­da­tion dona­tion box in the laun­dry room for every­one who would like to donate their clothes or oth­er items.
  • A yel­low bin is avail­able for plant-based, com­postable food­ser­vice pack­ag­ing (Veg­wear) that cater­ing com­pa­nies use for take­away foods.

Allotments

Fan­cy some gar­den­ing? Leck­hamp­ton Gar­dens includes an allot­ment for stu­dents to grow their own plants and veg­eta­bles. It can be found beside 23 Cran­mer Road. A cur­rent overview can be found here. Please get in touch with the Greens Offi­cer if inter­est­ed in tak­ing part!

Mending and Repair

There is a cloth­ing repair kit avail­able in the MCR TV Room. This includes but­tons, threads, darn­ing sup­plies for knits, patch­es, and a sewing machine. Please use these to look after your clothes and extend their lives. If you have trou­ble find­ing sup­plies or some­thing has run out, con­tact the MCR Greens Offi­cer.

Housekeeping

  • The house­keep­ing team is work­ing hard on main­tain­ing stu­dents’ accom­mo­da­tion in the ‘green­est’ way pos­si­ble. Bro­ken elec­tri­cal equip­ment is always dis­posed of safe­ly.
  • A drip­ping tap or a ther­mo­stat that is not work­ing? Please report it to main­te­nance via maintenance@corpus.cam.ac.uk.
  • As a stu­dent liv­ing in Leck­hamp­ton, you have the option to dry your laun­dry on wash­ing lines out­side the laun­dry room instead of using tum­ble dry­ers. This saves ener­gy and reduces wear on cloth­ing, too.
  • All light bulbs in Leck­hamp­ton accom­mo­da­tion are ener­gy-sav­ing. Nev­er­the­less, please make sure that you always switch off lights and appli­ances when you leave a room.
  • Please turn down your room ther­mo­stat or the ther­mo­stat on your room radi­a­tor if you are going out and close your win­dows and cur­tains to keep the heat in.
  • Please keep your show­er time to a rea­son­able length to reduce water con­sump­tion.

Transport

  • The fastest, cheap­est, and envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­liest way of get­ting around Cam­bridge is walk­ing and cycling. The MCR offers the option to rent bikes – if you are inter­est­ed please con­tact the cur­rent bike offi­cer (or a mem­ber of the MCR Com­mit­tee).
  • Once per year, the col­lege col­lects bro­ken bicy­cles and gives them to the char­i­ty OWL. They repair and sell the bikes and prof­its go to the char­i­ty.

Food

  • Reduc­ing meat con­sump­tion and gen­er­al reliance on ani­mal prod­ucts help sig­nif­i­cant­ly to decrease your car­bon foot­print. In Cor­pus main site and Leck­hamp­ton din­ing hall, dai­ly veg­e­tar­i­an and veg­an options are pro­vid­ed. These are list­ed above meat options on col­lege menus In case you would like to learn more about liv­ing with­out the use of ani­mal prod­ucts, please also con­sid­er join­ing the Cor­pus Christi Veg­an Soci­ety – every­one is wel­come!

Garden

  •  We are proud to have one of Cam­bridge’s most beau­ti­ful Col­lege gar­dens! The gar­den team works hard to ensure that bio­di­ver­si­ty is encour­aged through care­ful man­age­ment of the gar­dens with bat and bird nest­ing box­es and bug hotels. Please always feel invit­ed to enjoy the beau­ty of the gar­dens, but remem­ber to treat nature with the respect it deserves.

Sustainable Living in Cambridge

Would you like to know more about liv­ing sus­tain­ably in Cam­bridge? Under this link, you can find tips from your fel­low stu­dents — cov­er­ing, for exam­ple, food, fash­ion, ser­vices or information resources. If you have any tips, please feel free to add them to the spread­sheet. It will be a help­ful guide for all cur­rent and future stu­dents!

Get Involved

Get­ting curi­ous? In case you would like to get reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed about Green events hap­pen­ing across the Uni­ver­si­ty, please con­sid­er join­ing the Cor­pus Envi­ron­men­tal Soci­ety or sign up for the Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Green­lines Newslet­ter.

If you have any more ques­tions or sug­ges­tions, please feel free to con­tact your Green Offi­cer any time: mcr_green@corpus.cam.ac.uk 😊