Sustainable Campus Outlets
"We are committed to providing healthy and environmentally sustainable food to all our students, staff and visitors."
Central campus offers many different food outlets that are run by the teams at Warwick Food and Drink, Warwick Food Group and the Warwick Conferences.
By collaborating across the commercial outlets, the vision is to be sustainable and socially responsible University that showcases local produce, promotes healthier eating options and supports our environment. The collaboration extends to working with the on-site concessions, departmental food offerings and ensuring alignment with the Student Union priorities.
By highlighting the alignment of the CCSG Strategies to the University Sustainability Strategy, and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals we aim to bring more clarity to decision making surrounding food, how and where we source your food from and highlight new and existing responsibly sourced products and services that incorporate a more circular economy and lower the carbon footprint of our food-centric operations.
Learn more about the implementation of the strategy within each team, their policies, progress and how they are embedding sustainability into procurement decisions:
Recent Highlights
Carbon Calculator
The power of face-to-face events is unquestionable. At the same time, understanding the environmental impact of your event is crucial in today’s world where sustainability is a top priority. The Warwick Conferences' carbon calculator tool allows you to measure the carbon impact of your event and take steps to reduce it.
Triple Certified Coffee
We work with all of our coffee suppliers to ensure they have a strong ethical policy on how coffee is grown and produced, to ensure the environment is sustained.
All of our coffee grounds are collected and go to composting.
Our Areas of Impact
Across the Campus Commercial Services Group,Link opens in a new window the sustainability strategy includes a commitment to pursue change across the following priority areas, which are measured and reported on annually. The strategic areas of impact are aligned with the University Sustainability Strategy, and aim to provide sustainable campus and commercial services that help fund teaching, research and facilities at the University of Warwick.
Goal
To minimise direct and indirect emissions from our energy, water and fleet and support the Net Zero by 2030 goal.
Scroll through our teams to learn more about our actions:
Warwick Conferences
- Through regular monitoring issues are highlighted quickly, and fixed, leading to energy saving of XX kWh across conferences in 23/24.
- One leaking tap can water over 5000 litres of water in a year, and the conference facilities have hundreds!
- The “Skip a Clean” initiative works with guests to lower the energy intensity of their stay – with the average guest staying X nights, reducing the mid-visit vacuuming and laundry service has a low effort high reward impact.
- The kitchens can produce up to 2000 meals at their peak, prioritising energy efficient equipment helps reduce the electrical load required, and with X refrigeration units and Y ovens, the savings add up!
Warwick Food Group
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The 2025 redesign of coffee shops across campus brought new coffee machines all come with training and service contracts. With 2000 cups of coffee served daily our machines are worked hard, but their energy saving modes mean they run well and efficiently.
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In 2024 the Eatwise Test Kitchen reopened in University House, initially increasing our on-campus emissions but ensuring greater control and ownership of our food’s energy impact.
- Electric vans have been a mainstay of campus transportation for at least fifteen years, with concerns about air pollution from diesel vehicles the ongoing commitment to using electric vans to move products between the outlets minimise the Scope 1 emissions.
Warwick Food and Drink
- Whilst we are collating the good news stories, please see the Warwick Conferences webpages.
Concessions on Campus
- Whilst we are collating the good news stories, please see the Warwick Food Group webpages.
