The Environmental Policy

Promulgated April 22, 2004

• The University of Tennessee aspires to serve as a model of environmental stewardship and integrity and to follow principles of good environmental conservation, waste reduction, and design on its Knoxville campus.
• The faculty, staff, administration and students will strive to increase awareness of environmental problems and will promote sound environmental practices.
• UTK will encourage consideration of environmental impacts in all decisions made by university faculty, staff and students.
• The university will ensure full compliance with existing environmental laws and regulations and will seek to lead the community in developing beneficial laws and regulations.
• In its daily operations, UTK will attempt to conserve energy and to promote the use of renewable energy sources at the same time that it champions waste reduction, reuse, recycling and composting.
• University growth will occur in ways that respect the surrounding human and natural communities.
• UTK will cooperate with other local, national and international organizations to promote sound environmental policies