HKUST Sustainability

🌿 ✨ HKUST Impact Makers: Cultivating Well-being Through Sustainable Living! ✨🌿

To celebrate and thank our incredible staff volunteers for their dedication, the HKUST Impact Makers Programme rewarded them with a wellness experience of their own choosing! 🗳️✨

Our volunteers voted on the activities they wanted to explore, resulting in two creative, hands-on workshops this summer:

🥤 Smoothie Art Workshop
Participants transformed healthy ingredients into colourful edible creations while discovering nutritious and sustainable food choices.

🌸 Pressed Flower Recycled Paper Workshop
Participants gave office waste paper a new purpose by transforming it into handmade recycled paper decorated with pressed flowers, exploring a creative approach to waste reduction and resource conservation.

At HKUST, we believe that taking care of our planet starts with appreciating the people who drive change. These workshops were the perfect award for our volunteers to unwind, bond, and bring simple eco-friendly habits into their daily lives! 💚

🌟 Stop! Don’t Shop! Adopt! 🌟

🎉We are excited to invite you to ”Stop! Don‘t Shop! Adopt!“, where we will be giving away donated items collected from previous students who lived in the student halls and our campus community. This campaign not only aims to reduce waste but also seeks to spread kindness in our community! 💚

🗓️ Date & Times:
11 June 🕛 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
12 June 🕣 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

📍 Location: Living Lab Hub, Academic Concourse (Opposite Passione Cafe and Next to Lift 25-26)

💵 Payment: Cash Only

📦 Items Available:*
🛏️ Beddings
⚡ Electronic Appliances
🍽️ Household Items (Laundry & Kitchenware)
🖊️ Stationery

*All items are available on a first-come, first-served basis!

✨ We have gathered a variety of items collected from our community. Rest assured, the beddings have been thoroughly cleaned and sanitized by a laundry company!

For all items, we are offering them at a much discounted price to any students in need. These items have been meticulously sorted by our team and are in great condition. We invite you to come browsing and pick up the items that you require. 🛒

💖 We believe that these items, though previously owned, still have plenty of life left in them and can find a new loving home with you. We hope that they will be adopted by students who will benefit from them and continue their journey of usefulness.

👜 Remember to bring your own bag to collect the items you want! Look forward to seeing you! 🎈

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Preloved by You, Reloved by UST 🌟
 
Drop and Adopt is Back! ♻️ Donate your preloved items to give a warm welcome to new students arriving next semester and our community members.
Let’s make their transition smooth and filled with positivity. 💫
 
♻️ Drop and Adopt - Collection 📦
📅 Date: 5 May – 1 June 2026
📍 Location: Designated collection points at the Undergraduate Halls & Jockey Club Hall.
🎁 Items Collected: Beddings, Electronics & Household Items
🌿 Donation Guidelines: Please donate usable and clean items only. Let‘s show our generosity and care for the students who will benefit from these donations. 🌺
 
Thank you in advance to all the students for your kindness and support! Together, we can make a difference. 🌟
 
For any enquiries, please contact [email protected].
 
 
Donation DropandAdopt PrelovedtoReloved

Preloved by You, Reloved by UST 🌟
 
Drop and Adopt is Back! ♻️ Donate your preloved items to give a warm welcome to new students arriving next semester and our community members.
Let’s make their transition smooth and filled with positivity. 💫
 
♻️ Drop and Adopt - Collection 📦
📅 Date: 5 May – 1 June 2026
📍 Location: Designated collection points at the Undergraduate Halls & Jockey Club Hall.
🎁 Items Collected: Beddings, Electronics & Household Items
🌿 Donation Guidelines: Please donate usable and clean items only. Let’s show our generosity and care for the students who will benefit from these donations. 🌺
 
Thank you in advance to all the students for your kindness and support! Together, we can make a difference. 🌟
 
For any enquiries, please contact [email protected].

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Check out the new Smart Food Waste Bins at HKUST! ♻️

The 19 new Smart Food Waste Bins are now available across student halls and staff residences as part of our “Life Beyond the Bin” campaign. This is Hong Kong’s first self-financed food waste smart recycling bin program by an academic institution—demonstrating HKUST’s commitment to sustainability.

Here’s why it matters: HKUST produces around 1.4 metric tons of food waste each day, with about 5.7% that comes from student halls and staff residences. By improving food-waste separation, more valuable organic resources can be recovered. 🌿

Help us make our campus more sustainable and use the GREEN$ mobile app to recycle food waste and earn rewards! 💚

Check out the link in bio for more details! 🔗

Thank you to our HKUST community for making Drop and Adopt a success! 🎉

We’re excited to share the success of our latest Drop and Adopt cycle! Launched in Fall 2024, this initiative supports new students and tackles waste during semester transitions. ♻️

This fall, our community rallied together to donate 1,073 kg of preloved items, showcasing the power of empathy and sustainability. A huge thank you to the Campus Removal Team for collecting items and to the over a dozen volunteers who sorted and prepared them for resale! 🙌

Check out the impact from our Fall/Winter 2025-26 cycle, along with our achievements that benefited over 1,400 community members since 2024!

Thank you once again for making this possible! Let’s continue to build on this success for a greener HKUST! 🌍💚