It's here, it's here, it's finally here. Waste Transfer Station purchased a new green rolloff container specifically for recycling. We expect to use it for tailgate recycling, welcome week, and any other event that produces an excess of recycling or would benefit from a container dedicated to recyclables.
Sarthak Prasad shared 2018 notes from conversations held with stakeholders at The Ohio State University, West Lafayette (Purdue University), Bevier Cafe (University of Illinois), US Army Corps -- Champaign, and Michigan State University -- East Lansing on the topic of anerobic digesters. Attached are the notes. The document will continue to grow as more conversations occur.
Sarthak Prasad, Jen Fraterrigo, and Daphne Hulse intend to pursue conversations with campuses that have successfully installed anaerobic digesters. Michigan State University and Pennsylvania State University have been identified as the first campuses to initiate a conversation with. The goal of these conversations will be to understand how campuses achieved momentum and will for the digesters to be financed and built (stakeholders include but are not limited to farmers, relevant academic departments, crop sciences, digester operators, waste management and sustainability, organic waste haulers, researchers).
From: Zach Hansen <zhansen@na.com>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 10:16 AM
To: Varney, Pete <pvarney@illinois.edu>; Sinn, Macie <sinn1@illinois.edu>; Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Food Composting
Sounds great!
Daphne, if you are interested in getting more information on this solution, my counterparts in California has worked closely together on a number of projects with them so I could set up a call.
Thanks and I hope you all had a great weekend!
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From: Varney, Pete <pvarney@illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 9:01 AM
To: Zach Hansen <zhansen@na.com>; Sinn, Macie <sinn1@illinois.edu>; Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Subject: RE: Food Composting
Coincidence?
Daphne just discussed composting with me last week and it is of importance to her. I’ll let her take the lead on this if she wishes to follow-up.
Thank you,
Pete
(217) 333-7583
From: Zach Hansen <ZHansen@na.com>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 4:37 PM
To: Varney, Pete <pvarney@illinois.edu>; Sinn, Macie <sinn1@illinois.edu>; Hulse, Daphne Lauren <dlhulse2@illinois.edu>
Subject: Food Composting
Hi Pete, Macie, and Daphne,
Completely unrelated to the F&S meetings that we have been having, but I wanted to bring this to your attention.
If there are increases in demand for composting around the facilities like cafeterias, housing, even athletics, this was a pretty cool machine that seems incredibly easy to use and composts food scraps in 5 days!
https://info.waxie.com/for-solutions
Have a great weekend!
Zach
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qGob6lBsBE and now featured on the Reduce Single-Use Plastics Project Page.
On July 19, 2023 Mark Herman, Erin Minor, and Daphne Hulse assisted with filming a video for new student Sights and Sounds. A group of students from the Admissions & Records Building acted and recited lines from the script, encouraging students Be Orange and Go Green. Filming locations centered around hydration stations. The group got to see the new hydration station installed at the East Hall of Memorial Stadium!
