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Emerson Dining Center Donates to Food for Free
By: Ava Tribe Ever wonder where the excess food from the Dining Center ends up? Wonder no more! Rather than being discarded, unused food from the Emerson Dining Center is donated to Food for Free, a non-profit based in Massachusetts. This spring, we are thrilled to share that we’ve donated a remarkable 724 lbs of…
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Weigh the Waste- February, 2024
By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy We’re back again with the results from our monthly Weigh the Waste event. Check out results from last month and read more details about the event here. At our Weigh the Waste on February 28, our overall waste decreased yet again! Total waste weighed in at 56 lbs, a significant…
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Emerson Diners Significantly Reduce Food Waste!
By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy On Wednesday, November 15th, Emerson’s Sustainability Fellows held the last Weigh the Waste event of the semester in the Dining Center. For more details on Weigh the Waste events this semester, check out our past blogs! We totalled 84.4lbs of waste for the night. Compared to October, that’s a whopping…
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Weigh the Waste- October 2023
By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy On October 26th, Emerson’s Sustainability Fellows held our monthly Weigh the Waste event in the Dining Center. As was done in September, Fellows tabled on both floors of the dining hall and set out clear plastic bins to collect diners’ edible food waste, inedible food waste, liquids, and trash, and…
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Weigh the Waste – September, 2023
By Sustainability Coordinator Jacqui Moy On September 27th, Emerson’s student Sustainability Fellows helped kick off the first Weigh the Waste event of the school year! For 90 minutes during dinner, the Fellows and sustainability staff tabled on both floors of the dining hall and set out clear plastic bins to collect diners’ waste. The bins…
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Weigh the Waste — April, 2023
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig The final Weigh the Waste event of the year took place on April 26, Stop Food Waste Day. Eco Ambassadors ran the usual routine—tables out upstairs and downstairs with labeled, plastic tubs for weighing waste during the dining period—one last time before the end of the school year. This time,…
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Weigh the Waste — March, 2023
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig On Monday, March 20, Emerson’s Eco Ambassadors hosted the third Weigh the Waste event of the 2022-23 school year. Weigh the Waste is held to measure the amount of different kinds of waste students produce during an average dining period in the dining hall, in addition to recording students’ reasons…
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December Weigh the Waste events brings in one pound of edible food waste per minute
By Eco Ambassador Katie Koenig On December 7, the Eco Ambassadors worked with the dining hall to set up tables with large, labeled bins to collect all the waste from that evening’s dinner period. Eco Ambassadors worked the tables, directing waste into organized categories, both to encourage dining-goers to properly dispose of their waste and…
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Preventing food waste on and off campus
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga Food waste is no joke. While it may not seem like the most thrilling topic to discuss, it’s an issue that every single one of us contributes to, whether we intend to or not. Having a “zero waste lifestyle,” a way of living where an individual aims to produce zero…
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Local food at Emerson
By Eco Ambassador Anna Arriaga Sometimes, eating at a college dining hall can be weird: not watching your food be cooked, not knowing where the ingredients are sourced from, and not even being able to serve yourself can make it feel like you’re constantly eating at a restaurant. Fortunately, as an Emerson student, you can…
