Sustainable Future

From small steps to bigger projects...

There’s lots of work going on to help us reach carbon reduction. To help with this, you’re invited to join our sustainability group. The group meets regularly to discuss how we can be more sustainable, which feeds into our overall strategic plans.

Here are just five of the steps we’ve taken to be more sustainable...

Solar and wind energy

Our grounds maintenance will soon be carbon zero! We’re capturing solar and wind energy to power our grounds maintenance equipment, including our robotic mower, chainsaws, leaf blowers and trimmers. Keep an eye out for Lionel Pitchy, our battery-operated line machine! Bio-gas production

We have installed, and are using for research, an anaerobic digestor that breaks down organic matter to produce bio-gas and biofertiliser for use as fuel on campus.

Electric cars

We have replaced our older diesel fuelled cars with electric vehicles.

Eco-friendly food packaging

We have switched our disposable food packaging to eco-friendly alternatives. Flood defences

We have a balancing lake that acts as a flood defence for the rural villages downstream. It also features as a water jump for our British Eventing Horse Trials!

Aiming for a Carbon Net-Zero Farm

We are champions of sustainable farming techniques on our commercial farm at Bishop Burton, which is why we’ve set ourselves an ambitious target to reach carbon net-zero by 2030 – ten years ahead of NFU’s aim for farming nationally. Our key focus is precision agriculture and how we can help develop and support more sustainable farming practices from an economic and environmental point of view. We are dedicated to using the most forward-looking agricultural technologies to transform food production, reduce emissions, environmental damage, waste and soil erosion. As part of the Yorkshire and Humber Institute for Technology, more than £1.7m has recently been invested to develop our Centre for Precision Agriculture. This is a significant regional hub to support our students and the local farming community to be able to implement precision technologies in industry.

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