VCU Composts!
The Virginia Commonwealth University student newspaper Commonwealth Times has a very positive story this week on the school’s efforts to compost. VCU’s Dining Services has introduced a new composting program to reduce waste output out of Market-810 as part of VCU’s larger green initiative. At the end of September, VCU had diverted 11,365 pounds of […]
The Virginia Commonwealth University student newspaper Commonwealth Times has a very positive story this week on the school’s efforts to compost.
VCU’s Dining Services has introduced a new composting program to reduce waste output out of Market-810 as part of VCU’s larger green initiative.
At the end of September, VCU had diverted 11,365 pounds of waste from going to a landfill by sending its organic waste to a compost pile in Waverly, Va. through a company called Natural Organic Process Enterprises (NOPE).
“(Five tons is) the size of (a) construction dumpster,” said Tamara Highsmith, VCU’s Dining Sales and Services manager.
What are other local schools and restaurants doing to compost?
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