Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.73
Liaison Sean MacInnes
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2014
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

University of North Carolina, Greensboro
OP-T2-7: Pre-Consumer Food Waste Composting

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Anneliese Hitcho
Student Worker
Office of Sustainability
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Does the institution have a pre-consumer food waste composting program?:
Yes

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

Beginning February of 2011, UNCG Dining Services entered into an agreement with Brooks Contractor Composting Service (http://www.brookscontractor.com/) to haul food waste and other compostables from the Dining Hall and Catering Operations on campus to their facility in Goldston, NC. UNCG Dining Services staff collects pre-consumer food waste from kitchen preparation areas. This food waste is placed in a specially marked compost dumpster located behind the Dining Hall. Brooks services the dumpster three days a week. Total material composted, including both pre- and post-consumer waste, is averaging 21-22 tons per month.


The overall percentage of meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
65

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:
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The percentage of conference meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
60

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

Information provided by Kevin Deans, UNCG Dining Services.


Information provided by Kevin Deans, UNCG Dining Services.

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