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Student Switch Off winners

SWITCHING off and saving electricity to help the environment has become a competitive sport at MMU.

And the first winners are those planet-savers from Cavendish Halls of Residence who have won the Big Student Switch Off, a national campaign which aims to cut energy consumption in halls at Universities around the UK.

Over the past year, the Switch Off campaign has collaborated with the Natinal Union of Students, WWF, Defra, People and Planet, Ben and Jerries and the Odeon cinema led by MMU’s Environment Team and MMU’s People and Planet society.

MMU has worked with local businesses such as Hit and Run, Liquid, Walkabout, Steam student night and MMU Student Union’s in Manchester and Cheshire to offer weekly incentives to students to encourage saving energy.

Cavendish students have saved a whopping 18,558 kWh - 10 tonnes of carbon emissions which is equivalent to 15w light being left on for 141 years, 111 return flights from Manchester to London or Making 560,000 cups of tea!

As a reward for their amazing contribution a celebratory event takes place tonight at FAC 251(opposite Joshua Brooks). There’s free entry for the first 100 students from Cavendish Halls as winners of the 2010 Student Switch Off Campaign!

For more information, please go to: http://www.mmunion.co.uk/yourunion/environment/switchoff/ or contact Rob Croll on r.croll@mmu.ac.uk.

So far the campaign represents eight halls: Cavendish, Cambridge, Broomhurst, Booth Hall, Emberton, Harley, Davenport and Barlow. In total so far they have saved a whopping 139,013 kWh of electric power.

That’s 75 tonnes of carbon off our footprint and a fantastic £14,000 off the electricity bill!

Published Monday, 24th May 2010