{"id":27863,"date":"2022-03-07T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T06:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/suid-afrikaans-akademic-elects-dr-frederick-botha-as-member-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T13:35:11","slug":"spu-campus-goes-green-and-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-campus-goes-green-and-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"SPU campus goes green and clean"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27863\" class=\"elementor elementor-27863\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-15e0e3cf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"15e0e3cf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1d99ab96\" data-id=\"1d99ab96\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-354b2ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"354b2ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recycling took centre stage when the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/\">Sol Plaatje University<\/a><\/span> Green Campus Initiative (#SPUGCI) ambassadors visited the Mhudi, Rhataga, Tauana, and Moroka residences to educate students about recycling bins.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Green Campus Initiative was established to promote environmental sustainability interventions.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initial round of interventions focused on educational awareness and changing behaviour change of the SPU community.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The residence visits provided a first-hand opportunity for the team to explain what the labelling of the bins meant and how students should use the bins.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The University also demonstrated the various ways to minimise the negative impact of climate change in the environment. It also planned to use campaigns to raise awareness and mobilise the community to be careful about environmentally friendly activities.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Key performance areas for the initiative are recycling awareness, waste and water management, the impact of 4IR in the environment, and planting trees and food gardening.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vision of the University\u2019s environmental campaign is to regularly conduct awareness campaigns that broaden the knowledge of the SPU community about environmental sustainability and supports the sustainable use of the University\u2019s resources.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0159c94 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0159c94\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b5aa05\" data-id=\"4b5aa05\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recycling took centre stage when the Sol Plaatje University Green Campus Initiative (#SPUGCI) ambassadors visited the Mhudi, Rhataga, Tauana, and Moroka residences to educate students about recycling bins. The Green Campus Initiative was established to promote environmental sustainability interventions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-campus-goes-green-and-clean\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[185],"class_list":["post-27863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-spu-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29537,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions\/29537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}