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Compost bins installed in dorm rooms following student-led effort

Article originally posted at https://www.westernfrontonline.com/2018/11/28/compost-bins-installed-in-dorm-rooms-following-student-led-effort/ Compost bins installed in dorm rooms following student-led effort The new compost buckets are specifically designed with odor-cancelling ventilation. // Photo by Jaden Moon By Samuel Fletcher This week Western is launching a university-wide compost program which will put state-of-the-art bins in every dorm room on campus. The effort was completely student-led. Students Jessica Loveland, Abby Severns and Risa Askerooth are mentors in the Sustainability Representative Program, located in Western’s Office of Sustainability. As such, they were tasked with doing a year-long project focused on improving sustainability. During her freshman year, Loveland took it upon herself to make a compost bucket and walk it to the nearest food-waste bin on campus, she said. Making the ecologically-conscious activity more accessible to other students seemed like a…

Piles, Pitchforks, and Perfect Learning Opportunities: Why Colleges and Universities Should Choose Small-Scale Composting (article)

(original content found here: http://www.compostory.org/2013/09/08/piles-pitchforks-and-perfect-learning-opportunities-why-colleges-and-universities-should-choose-small-scale-composting/ )By Jen Schmidt and Adam Long, Farm Manager at Pomona College, California In this blog post, Jen and Adam describe the composting program in place at Pomona College and shares his vision on low-tech campus composting. Shiny, expensive mechanical composters are increasingly popular at colleges and universities that want to compost their food waste, and rightly so. They offer a number of benefits, including reduced labor, minimal odor, and short composting times. At Pomona College, though, we have done things differently and we have come to believe that small-scale, low-technology composting is the way to go. A simple compost pile may not be glamorous, but the educational and environmental benefits of this method are more than worthwhile. Starting in the mid-1990s, Pomona College students and staff members…