Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.39
Liaison Sam Lubow
Submission Date June 29, 2012
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Stanford University
OP-T2-7: Pre-Consumer Food Waste Composting

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Jiffy Vermylen
Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability & Energy Management / Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution have a pre-consumer food waste composting program?:
Yes

A brief description of the pre-consumer food waste composting program:

All dining halls collect pre and post-production food waste, which is sent to an off-site composting facility. The finished compost is then returned to campus for use in one of seven Dining Hall Gardens, on the Stanford Educational Farm, and for various landscaping needs. Stanford annually composts over 1 million tons of food waste from its dining halls and other campus eateries.


The overall percentage of meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
100

The percentage of meal plan meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
100

The percentage of retail facility meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
100

The percentage of conference meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
100

The website URL where information about the composting program is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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