2024 – University of Pittsburgh’s Food Security Lockers, innovatively recovering surplus food from campus dining and distributing it to food insecure students.
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2024 – UT Knoxville is reducing food waste on campus and ending hunger by repurposing the recovered food into microwavable meals.
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2024 – Endicott’s Annual Freecycle Thrift Store event takes place during CR2ZW – Clothing is gathered from residence hall donation bins and then students thrift through them.
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2023 – Harvard’s Zero Waste Project consolidates unmarked bins into zones at campus events to improve diversion rates, reduce contamination, and initiate a discourse on waste.
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2023 – University of Southern California enacts a policy prohibiting single-use plastic beverage bottles from all university events and operations.
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2023 – Valparaiso takes steps to reduce the number of plastic liners being used in trash and recycling containers.
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2023 – Amherst implements a campus closed loop system across the annual Move Out / Move In cycle that minimizes waste to the landfill.
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2023 – Chapman’s “Ditch the Dumpster” program diverts waste from the landfill during the student move-out by offering accessible, one-stop donation stations.
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2023 – Hope collects clothing items from students and hosts thrift shop, diverting clothes from the landfill.
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2023 – Kent State implements a reusable to-go container program, avoiding the generation and disposal of 60,000 containers in one year.
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