The Sustainable Procurement Guide provides staff with tips for a sustainable workplace and the Green Office Guide shows ways to achieve sustainable office design.

100 percent recycled paper is purchased. The default setting on the printer is set to "duplex printing" (double-sided printing).

At the main campus of the University of Graz, used sanitary paper is collected separately and processed into new sanitary paper products using the campus's own sanitary paper press. Thus, less residual waste is generated on campus and the annual hygiene paper consumption of about 2.6 tons can be returned to the circular cycle.

Organic and Fairtrade coffee is offered in the vending machines. If you use your own coffee-to-go cup, you will receive a discount of ten cents on each hot drink at the hot drink vending machines. Likewise, the Uni Graz coffee-to-go cup, which can be used as a reusable cup, is available in the snack machines.

Cleaning is carried out at the university using ecological cleaning agents. Waste management is continuously improved, especially by setting up waste separation systems. Here you can find the waste separation sheet of the university. The new waste containers can be ordered in the Campus Service Portal.

BackCup - the returnable deposit cup. The coffee-to-go returnable cup can be used at all BackCup partner businesses.

In purchasing, special attention is paid to energy-saving devices. Decommissioned devices are handed over to "AfB Social & Green IT" (work for people with disabilities), where the data is deleted in a certified manner and the devices are prepared for reuse.