2024 Texas Environmental Leadership Award for Innovative Organics

The University of Texas at Arlington received STAR's Texas Environmental Leadership Award - Innovative Organics for the Post-Consumer Composting Program.

Texas Environmental Leadership Award Winner

2024 TELA- Innovative Organics

The University of Texas at Arlington won STARs (State of Texas Alliance for Recycling) Texas Environmental Leadership Award for the post consumer composting program. The award is given to organizations and institutions that go above and beyond to recycle organics. UTA already has an award winning pre-consumer program. The post-consumer composting program was implemented in June 2023 and has diverted over 60,000lbs of compostable material away from the landfill.