Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.37
Liaison Suchi Daniels
Submission Date Jan. 14, 2014
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.2

University of South Florida (Tampa)
OP-T2-8: PostConsumer Food Waste Composting

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Elizabeth Kaplon
Program Director
Housing & Residential Ed.
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Does the institution have a postconsumer food waste composting program?:
Yes

A brief description of the postconsumer food waste composting program:

Post-comsumer food waste is composted by the residents of the Green Living and Learning Community in the Maple B residence hall. The LLC has a multilayered canister of worms that are feed weekly shredded paper and some food scraps. Compost is used for butterfly gated outside residence halls. Two years ago the LLC had an instructional DVD with a tutorial.


The percentage of overall meals for which postconsumer composting is available:
100

The percentage of meal plan meals for which postconsumer composting is available:
100

The percentage of retail facilities for which postconsumer composting is available:
0

The percentage of conference meals for which postconsumer composting is available:
0

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