2022 – Educates the campus public about the importance and benefits of reuse.
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2022 – UW hosts a Trash Art Contest for the campus community members to raise awareness about waste impacts on the environment.
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2022 – Office of Sustainability Green Athletics team conducts waste audits at soccer games to assess the effectiveness of intervention methods on contamination rates.
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2022 – Organics Recovery program began as a student initiative and has expanded into a multi-departmental effort to capture organic waste from dining halls, sports arenas, academic buildings, and student housing.
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2021 – Riverwalk Composting Pilot Program is a student‐led initiative focused on empowering residents at Riverwalk Apartments to compost their food waste.
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2021 – Supports campus and community during times of food insecurity and diverts food waste during the Covid‐19 pandemic.
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2021 – Pilots a pre‐consumer composting program in one of their campus dining facilities.
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2021 – Focuses on the various stages of their food waste reduction program and the campus food waste to biofuels program in the post‐consumer process.
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2021 – Composts 54 tons of food related waste in the first five months of its compost pilot program.
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2021 – Aims to reduce waste on campus by offering a free store which received secondhand student donations and allowed other students to shop for free.
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