Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.91
Liaison Nathan King
Submission Date Aug. 2, 2011
Executive Letter Download

STARS v1.1

Virginia Tech
OP-T2-7: Pre-Consumer Food Waste Composting

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Elena Dulys-Nusbaum
Sustainability Coordinator
Dining Services
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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:

Virginia Tech Dining Services began to compost its pre-consumer food waste in January of 2009 at our pre-preparation food processing center on campus, Southgate. All of our compost, pre and post-consumer, is picked up and processed by a local family operation located just miles away in Riner, VA. The pre-consumer composting program has largely expanded in the years following 2009. It now includes D2, DXpress, Owens Food Court, Au Bon Pain (ABP) Squires, ABP GLC, and Hokie Grill. West End Market and our soon-to-open dining center Turner Place are slated to be composting within a year.

For an article about Dining Service’s composting program see: http://blogs.roanoke.com/ticker/2011/04/12/virginia-tech-cuts-waste-with-dining-services-composting-program/

For more information about the company that processes Virginia Tech’s compostable material please see: http://www.poplarmanorenterprises.com/


The website URL where information about the composting program is available:
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