Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
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Overall Score | 52.21 |
Liaison | David Husemoller |
Submission Date | June 7, 2017 |
Executive Letter | Download |
College of Lake County
OP-8: Sustainable Dining
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 2.00 |
David
Husemoller Sustainability Manager Facilities |
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Part 1: Sustainable Dining Initiatives
Sustainable Dining Policy
Yes
A brief description of the sustainable dining policy:
CLC recently contracted with Fresh Ideas to provide food services in the cafe, at the coffee shop, and in catering services. CLC chose Fresh Ideas partly based on their eagerness to embrace sustainability initiatives. CLC's Cafe Willow prepares food with produce grown on campus. The cafe offers food scrap composting along with recycling and trash disposal options for patrons and in the kitchen.
On-Campus Sourcing
Yes
A brief description of the program to source food from a campus garden or farm:
CLC's campus farm
Local Community Engagement
Yes
A brief description of the farmers market, CSA or urban agriculture project:
CLC hosts a farm market weekly during the growing season, featuring produce grown on campus.
Vegan Dining Program
Yes
A brief description of the vegan dining program:
Fresh Ideas is our food service provider. They have a program using icons to identify food dishes as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free etc.
Low-Impact Dining Events
Yes
A brief description of the low impact dining events:
Fresh Ideas promotes the idea of Meatless Mondays using the campus video system to encourage cafe patrons to enjoy meatless dishes prepared as main dishes for the day.
Sustainability-Themed Meals
No
A brief description of the sustainability-themed meals:
They have not done this specifically, beyond meatless Mondays, but they could.
Sustainability-Themed Outlet
No
A brief description of the sustainability-themed food outlet:
I am not sure what you mean by outlet.
Labeling and Signage
Yes
A brief description of the sustainability labeling and signage in dining halls:
Yes, labels provide information about vegetarian and vegan options and highlight food products grown on campus.
Outreach and Education
Yes
A brief description of the outreach efforts to support learning and research about sustainable food systems:
CLC has a local foods coordinator who works with the Dept. of Horticulture faculty to educate students, faculty and staff about the benefits of local foods.
Other Initiatives
Yes
A brief description of the other sustainability-related dining initiatives:
Fresh Ideas works with CLC to offer reusable containers food and beverages. They offer discounts to people reusing coffee cups.
Part 2: Food and Dining Waste
Food Recovery Program
Yes
A brief description of the food recovery competition or commitment program or food waste prevention system:
Fresh Ideas highlights their commitment to reducing food waste.
Trayless Dining and Portion Modifications
Yes
A brief description of the trayless dining or modified menu/portion program:
Fresh Ideas works with CLC to offer reusable containers food and beverages. They offer discounts to people reusing coffee cups.
Food Donation
Yes
A brief description of the food donation program:
The campus farm and community garden have a gleaning program for vegetables that they donate to the Avon Township Food Pantry.
Food Materials Diversion
Yes
A brief description of the food materials diversion program:
CLC has a compost program to food scraps and coffee grounds from the cafe and student kitchen.
Composting
Yes
A brief description of the pre-consumer composting program:
The kitchen staff and culinary students both take their pre-consumer food scraps to be composted. A portion of these food scraps are composted on campus, while the rest is hauled to a commercial composting facility.
Does the institution or its primary dining services contractor have a post-consumer composting program?:
Yes
A brief description of the post-consumer composting program:
Just over this past academic year, CLC began implementing its compost program for patrons to the Cafe. These food scraps are collected and hauled to a commercial composting facility.
Dine-In Service Ware
Yes
A brief description of the reusable service ware program:
The dining service offers reusable food containers and coffee cups. The bookstore sells reusable utensils made from bamboo.
Take-Away Materials
Yes
A brief description of the compostable containers and service ware:
Fresh Ideas has been promoting its reusable containers, which it washes for patrons of the cafe.
Does the institution or its primary dining services contractor offer discounts or other incentives to customers who use reusable containers (e.g. mugs) instead of disposable or compostable containers in “to-go” food service operations?:
Yes
A brief description of the reusable container discount or incentives program:
The cafe offers a considerable discount for "refills" of coffee, that is coffee in reusable coffee cups.
Other Materials Management Initiatives
Yes
A brief description of other dining services materials management initiatives:
Our bookstore, the LancerZone offers honey for sale that has been harvested from our campus apiary.
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