{"id":447,"date":"2025-08-01T14:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uniroma3.it\/int\/?page_id=447"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:22:57","slug":"romatre-against-plastic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uniroma3.it\/int\/about-us\/sustainable-roma-tre\/environmental\/romatre-against-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"RomaTre against plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roma Tre has always been committed to making sustainability an integral part of the University\u2019s policies. Projects and initiatives have been launched to encourage the active participation of the community in reducing environmental impact while ensuring the well-being of the community and economic development of the community. Particular attention is devoted to fostering responsibility in the education of students, whose future behaviors and decisions will be influenced by the knowledge acquired during their university experience.<\/p>\n<p>A key aspect of the University\u2019s projects is the fight against the consumption of single\u2011use plastics, for this purpose steel water bottles customized with the Roma Tre Logo have been purchased and distributed free of charge to enrolled students.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s fight climate change together.<\/p>\n<h2>Results<\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Roma Tre believes that action is needed at the source of the process that leads, at the end of the production cycle, to the presence of plastic in the environment. Therefore, the University works to discourage the use of single\u2011use plastic bottles by providing students and staff, in addition to the stainless\u2011steel bottles already described, drinking water dispensers.<\/p>\n<p>Across all University locations, there are\u00a0<strong>28 drinking water dispensers<\/strong>\u00a0available for filling thermal bottles with room\u2011temperature, chilled or sparkling water.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, a total of 860.415 \u00a0liters of water had been dispensed, resulting in a saving of approximately\u00a0<strong>1.720.830<\/strong> <strong>plastic bottles<\/strong>, corresponding to 17.208,3 \u00a0kg of plastic not released into the environment and a consequent reduction of about 46 tons of CO\u2082.<\/p>\n<p>The average weight of a 0.5 L PET bottle is about 15 g = 0.015 kg. The emissions for producing 1 kg of PET are approximately 3 kg of CO\u2082.<\/p>\n<p>Calculation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plastic saved: 1.720.830 bottles \u00d70,015 kg = 25.812,45kg of PET.<\/li>\n<li>CO\u2082 emissions avoided: 25.812 kg \u00d7 3 kg CO\u2082\/kg PET = 77.437 kg of CO\u2082, which corresponds to 77,4 tons of CO\u2082.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Second campaign<\/h3>\n<p>Students enrolled in the academic years 2024\/2025 and 2025\/2026 will receive an electronic voucher at their institutional e-mail address to collect a free water bottle at the new <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" id=\"identifier__33566-1\">Link identifier #identifier__33566-1<\/span><a aria-labelledby='identifier__33566-1'  href=\"https:\/\/www.uniroma3.it\/int\/about-us\/university-life\/services\/roma-tre-unistore\/\">Unistore<\/a> in Via Ostiense 133 (open every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 A.M. to 01:00 P.M. and from 02:00P.M. to 05:00P.M.). Each item is packaged in recyclable material that is 100% sourced from FSC-certified suppliers. Moreover, Roma Tre is committed to <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" id=\"identifier__119294-2\">Link identifier #identifier__119294-2<\/span><a aria-labelledby='identifier__119294-2'  href=\"https:\/\/tree-nation.com\/it\/alberi\/7251831\/visualizzare\">planting a tree for every bottle distributed<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>For enrolled students who were unable to collect their water bottles in previous years, it is possible to submit a request by filling out the following <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" id=\"identifier__35310-3\">Link identifier #identifier__35310-3<\/span><a aria-labelledby='identifier__35310-3'  href=\"https:\/\/forms.microsoft.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=aN-0_2T0jEWlRgD7OvZvamO9Ov17pqFGjG3xJxqSD-pUMkpQNVpQS0FDWUZPUDg5UFpDM0Q0QjJWQy4u&amp;route=shorturl\">form<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Within 30 days, a digital voucher for collecting the water bottle will be sent to their institutional e-mail.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0First campaign<\/h3>\n<p>Roma Tre purchased <strong>36,000<\/strong> stainless steel thermal water bottles featuring the Roma Tre logo, which were distributed free of charge between 2019 and 2024 with a pause during the Covid period to all freshmen enrolled in bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degree programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\"><div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<p>Roma Tre has always been committed to making sustainability an integral part of the University\u2019s policies. 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