- NCKU Plastic Reduction Guidelines
NCKU’s Plastic Reduction Guidelines promote reducing disposable plastics, avoiding plastic bags and straws, and using reusable containers across campus. These principles are further incorporated into contracts with outsourced campus service providers, requiring vendors to support plastic reduction and sustainable practices and extending NCKU’s minimisation policy beyond internal operations.
- Promoting Vendor Compliance with Sustainability Measures through Concession Contracts
NCKU extends its disposable-item reduction policy to outsourced campus dining services. In 2025, the Dining Committee approved revised tender requirements promoting environmental sustainability and discounts for customers using reusable meal containers. These measures require contracted food-service providers to support reusable alternatives and reduce dependence on single-use food containers.
- Discounts will be offered to campus cafeterias for students bringing their own tableware.
- Sharing Excess Meals from Group Meals with Students
NCKU actively promotes sustainable dining measures on campus. In addition to implementing resource recycling and reusable tableware systems, the university has also planned to share surplus group meals with students to reduce food waste. Campus cafeterias use stainless steel tableware and have set up “tableware collection stations” for centralized washing and reuse, thereby reducing the consumption of disposable utensils. At the same time, categorized bins are provided to separate food waste, recyclables, and general trash, improving recycling efficiency. More importantly, NCKU promotes the redistribution of surplus group meals, offering extra food to students in need, combining food resource reuse with social care. This initiative demonstrates the university’s strategy of integrating plastic reduction, food conservation, and a circular campus, thereby achieving source reduction and aligning with the SDGs’ sustainability goals.
