Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.00
Liaison Richard Demerjian
Submission Date May 24, 2013
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STARS v1.2

University of California, Irvine
OP-T2-7: Pre-Consumer Food Waste Composting

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Jack McManus
Director
UCI Hospitality and Dining
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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:

All pre-consumer food waste is weighed and logged in a waste-tracking website at all dining locations. 80% of all pre-consumer food waste is put in compost.


The overall percentage of meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
80

The percentage of meal plan meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
100

The percentage of retail facility meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
50

The percentage of conference meals for which pre-consumer scraps are composted:
100

The website URL where information about the composting program is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Composting is done off-site by Waste Management.

See also:
http://www.fm.uci.edu/units/recyling_refuse.html


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