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Dining Services
Our Green Initiatives
- "Totally Trayless": Dining Services went trayless this year saving thousands of gallons of water used to wash the trays and eliminating tons of food waste.
- Dining Services composts its food waste and paper materials for use by our Grounds department for campus care.
- Waste vegetable oil is currently sold to an animal feed producer. In the near future, it will be converted into bio-diesel as an Engineering student project. The fuel will then be used in campus maintenance and transportation equipment.
- Excess prepared food in good condition is donated to the Community Kitchen on a daily basis. This organization opens their doors to anyone in the community in need of a meal and support.
- Michigan-grown and/or produced products are used as much as possible.
- Napkins are made from 100% recycled paper and processed chlorine free.
- We currently recycle over 120,000 card board boxes each year as well as our tin, glass and plastic.
- Food and napkin waste is mechanically mulched to reduce volume by 50%.
- The types of environmentally friendly disposable products we use are made of PLA (corn based), potato and pre- and post-consumer waste items.
- Staff avoids using disposable containers to drink out of while on the job.
- Used food service equipment is sold or dismantled and recycled where possible.
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