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WXXI talks to Charles Ruffing, director, New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, about a new program to help municipalities throughout the state reduce food waste.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I)—led by RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability—has developed a free, interactive toolkit that municipalities can use to design, implement, and manage food waste programs at the local level.

Now in its fourth year, Reman Day is designed to bring attention to the remanufacturing industry, shining a light on what remanufacturing is, how it works, and why it matters as a sustainable, resource-efficient approach to manufacturing.

The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers has named Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, and Iris Rivero, head of RIT’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, as Fellows, an honor that recognizes outstanding leaders of the profession who have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial and systems engineering.

Nabil Nasr, associate provost and founding director of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, is part of an advisory board, The CLEEN Project, which recently launched the nation’s first co-operative idea database designed specifically for federal leaders in the new administration and focused on providing actionable ideas to combat climate change and advance climate justice.

RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability has been selected to help New York cleantech startups learn about and apply sustainable manufacturing concepts in their businesses.

Students on co-op are picking up more than occupational and professional skills. As the pandemic unfolded last spring and summer, they saw firsthand how companies manage even in the midst of a crisis.

WROC-TV talks to Charles Ruffing, director of the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute, about reusing items and reducing waste before turning to recycling.

A collaboration between the Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and five partners were winners of the 2020 Manufacturing Leadership Award by the Manufacturing Leadership Council, a division of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

More than 65 thought leaders and policy makers from around New York State gathered on Zoom for the second-annual Thermochemical Conversion & Biochar Workshop.

A team of RIT researchers has been working to blast-clean some 360 door handles from buildings across campus to restore the surface copper. Copper has been found to have antibacterial properties that can kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP21) has announced its final selections for the 2020-2021 Community Grants Program.