Auburn University is having a Food Waste Audit April 22 to determine how much compostable food waste and noncompostable food waste students and restaurants on campus throw out each day.
This data will help Recycling and Solid Waste Coordinator Donny Addison convince the University it would be in its best interest to start a composting program on campus.
We remember being in elementary school and having a compost pile out behind the cafeteria.
It was every little third-grader's duty to go out back and dump their food scraps on the pile, which would then be composted and used in flowerbeds around campus.
With us being an agricultural school, surely a use could be found for such material. It would be a money-saver for the school too, since the waste would not have to be carted off to a landfill, which charges to dispose of our waste.
We completely support the results of this effort and encourage students to recycle or use reuseable materials.
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