2023年12月5日

浩博体育app之间的合作 可持续发展办公室 and dining服务; provider Aramark is diverting food waste from Evert 餐厅 Room to SU’s 花园校区.

每一天, Aramark dining staff collect pre-consumer food waste in five-gallon buckets that are delivered to the garden by employees from facilities management. 学生 employees at the garden turn the compost regularly and then use it to fertilize and cultivate crops.

“In Pennsylvania, nearly 40% of the waste sent to landfills or incinerated consists of organic waste. 随着它的衰落, 它产生甲烷, a greenhouse gas that poses a greater threat to both the environment and human health compared to carbon dioxide,” Drew mact，副教授 英语 萨斯奎哈纳可持续发展委员会主席. “Diverting food waste from landfills to composting reduces greenhouse gas emissions, 自然资源保护, 和实践循环经济减少原则, 重用, 和回收;.”

帕特里克·克罗斯24岁 心理学 主要来自米德尔敦，新泽西和莎拉乔伊26年 生态 主要来自佛罗里达州棕榈湾，负责管理堆肥桶.

“Our involvement in this project stems from a commitment to aiding Susquehanna University in its sustainability objectives for the university’s 2026 strategic plan,“他们说. “Our contribution involves developing both short- and long-term goals toward waste reduction and enhancing the campus environment through cultivation.”

Susquehanna’s 15,000-square-foot 花园校区，位于 环境教育和研究中心, 种植30多种不同品种的水果, vegetables and herbs in 50 raised beds and six in-ground plots — all of which is donated to local community organizations like Haven Ministry in Sunbury and the Regional Engagement Center (REC) in Selinsgrove.

除了消费前的废物，自10月起 dining服务; has collected all solid post-consumer food waste — roughly 12-14 five-gallon buckets per day — and donated it to a local farmer.