Campus clean-ups help maintain the environmental integrity of our university ecosystem.
Community outreach strengthens on-campus efforts with outside support.
Student volunteers engage with the community to support sustainable initiatives at community events.
Efforts are underway to eradicate the invasive “air potato” from the botanical gardens.
Even Pete the Panther is on board with campus sustainability
Even Pete the Panther is on board with campus sustainability
FIT compost uses food scraps from the SUB Cafe and is turning this material into exceptional soil and liquid fertilizer (“ti’) that is be used for the campus gardens.
Composting at FIT uses worm houses and consists of feeding, watering, and harvesting.
The worm houses have a series of moveable trays that are filled with different stages of compost; there can be up to seven trays in a working house.
The worms travel up the different layers of trays feeding on the compostable materials until they are completely broken down.
The last tray is the tray consisting of completely broken down soil and material that make up the harvestable compost.
Feedings are done by adding new compostable materials to the already existing top trays for the worms to break down until the bottom tray is ready for harvesting and a completely new top tray can be made.
“Ti” is the remaining liquid (super-fertilizer) that has filtered through all of the existing layers of the worm house and has settled in the bottom collection area that has a spout attached to it.
After filtering through all the layers of the worm house this Ti has high levels of minerals and nutrients along with the compost and it can strongly aid in plant growth when used for watering.
Florida Tech offers recycling for electronic items, which can be brought to the Shipping and Receiving Building on the South side of campus, across from the Scott Center.
Florida Tech recycles all manner of electronics from old phones to computers, most everything can be reused to some capacity! The campus community can even bring their personal items they wish to recycle here.
As a university that has evolved alongside NASA’s space program, Florida Tech has always been on the forefront of exciting change. Each semester, sustainability becomes a larger component of life at Florida Tech. From rapidly growing major and minor programs to active student organizations, sustainable education has hit home. Student-run initiatives for protecting the planet such as dining hall composting and electronics recycling have yielded tangible outcomes and inspire other initiatives around campus. Students learn best, protecting the planet, practices to implement in their lives and in business in an effort to maintain our current resources so they will be available to future generations. The sustainability course series produces new waves of young sustainability experts for both our campus and our community each year. Opportunities to engage in sustainability volunteer and internship opportunities are abundant in our community. Students also celebrate Earth Week, the annual event for protecting the planet, each spring to bring about awareness for environmental issues both locally and globally in fun and engaging ways.
