UCLA Green Events

UCLA Green Team

The UCLA Event Sustainability Committee and the UCLA Events Office are very pleased to announce the Event Sustainability Volunteer Program, a new and exciting volunteer activity for affiliated students, staff and faculty. This is the first of a series of programs designed to “green” our campus events in cooperation with the University’s converging efforts. There are currently over sixty members of the program, and it is ever expanding.

The Event Sustainability Volunteer Program invites volunteers to participate in campus events and to assist event guests in the distribution of their waste into the appropriate recycling containers for proper disposal. Volunteers serve a shift of approximately an hour and a half and are often invited to enjoy the food and entertainment free of charge following their duties. After completing a certain number of events, volunteers will be eligible to participate in such large scale events as Parents Weekend, the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, Spring Sing, and the Jazz Reggae Festival.

Participants in the Event Sustainability Volunteer Program, now affectionately known as the “Green Team,” go through a short training program designed to help them become familiar with sustainable techniques and current information. They are then entered in a database and notified each time that a new event opportunity becomes available. Shifts are filled on a first come, first serve basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to see event planning in action and play an important role in UCLA’s efforts to become more environmentally friendly. Volunteers can visually measure the diversion by just looking at their bins by the end of the event, providing a sense of satisfaction for their job well done.

To get involved in the Green Team, send your name, email address and phone number to green@events.ucla.edu.

To have the Green Team participate in your next event, email green@events.ucla.edu. Include the following information:

  • Your name
  • Email
  • Event name
  • Event date
  • Event time
  • How many recycling stations will there be?
  • Details: what kind of servingware? Other waste you expect to generate?