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The five ecological campuses
Faculty of Textile Science & Technology
Faculty of Textile Science & Technology
3-15-1 Tokida, Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture
http://www.tex.shinshu-u.ac.jp/
The Ueda Faculty of Textile Science & Technology campus is located in Ueda city.
It features an auditorium designated as an important cultural property, blending with modern and high-tech educational research facilities.
The Faculty of Textile Science & Technology has been adopted as an International Center of Excellence on Fiber Engineering of the global COE and is developing as a global center of excellence for fiber technology and science.
The Faculty of Textile Science & Technology advocates as a principal the coexistence with the global environment and has established and developed an ecological campus through the cooperation of students, faculties, and co-op staff to train ecologically-minded engineers to realize this principal.
In December 2006, the established ecological campus was certified according to ISO 14001 - the International Environment Management System standard.
(ISO Environmental management student committee - leaders to establish and develop ecological campuses )
Trash bins designed by ISO the Environment Management Student Committee
(ISO Environmental management student committee - leaders to establish and develop ecological campuses )
Research regarding the quality improvement of discharged water from the co-op cafeteria
(ISO Environment Management Student Committee)
(ISO Environmental management student committee - leaders to establish and develop ecological campuses )
Cotton fiber cultivation using composted kitchen waste
(ISO Environmental Management Student Committee)

The ISO 14001 Environmental Management Student Committee promotes activities to accomplish zero emissions on the campus by plotting out standards to separate renewable resources from waste which are applied over all ecological campuses and researches the actual rate of waste separation accomplishment.
Trash bins on the campus have been designed by the student committee.
The members of the committee participate in internal audits as internal auditors and play an important role in ISO 14001 certification.
In addition to these activities, in a notable project, the committee addresses the quality improvement of discharged water from the co-op cafeteria on the campus. By cleaning grease traps and improving discharged water quality, the hands-on research of water quality improvement is promoted.
The Faculty of Textile Science & Technology ISO 14001 Environmental Management Student Committee composts kitchen waste for use in campus cotton fiber cultivation to pursue the potential for zero campus emissions. Cotton flowers blossom in planters in front of the main gate of the campus, grown with passion by the committee.