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School sees little go to waste with composting, recycling

 May 04, 2015

One Pittsburgh-area high school is making strides in reducing waste through active recycling and composting programs supported by the students and community.

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Food Network alum teaches kids to make art out of waste

 May 04, 2015

Food Network’s Gold Medal Winner Ray Duey is traveling the country showing students how to turn fruit and vegetable scraps into floral and animal masterpieces.

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College consortium receives EPA award for food waste reduction efforts

Apr. 27, 2015

A consortium of Pennsylvania colleges received the EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge Endorser of the Year award, recognizing food waste reduction efforts.

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School-garden advocate a finalist for $1 million prize

Apr. 24, 2015

Stephen Ritz founded the nonprofit Green Bronx Machine with his students at New York City’s P.S. 55, which has installed more than 100 gardens at schools throughout the city.

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Save coffee grounds

Apr. 24, 2015

We save our coffee grounds in 5-gallon buckets.

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Sodexo pledges to involve 9,000 managed sites in EPA’s food recovery plan

By Bianca N. Herron on Apr. 24, 2015

Sodexo said it will support the Environmental Protection Agency’s food recovery program by sharing its waste reduction strategy, resources and expertise across the 9,000 sites it serves in North America by 2020.

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4 food-recovery rock stars

By Katie Fanuko on Apr. 21, 2015

Here are four college-and-university feeding operations that each have diverted more than 10,000 pounds of food from landfills.

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Congressman: One-size-fits-all lunch rules are recipe for disaster

Apr. 21, 2015

An Indiana Congressman is seeing a lot of food being thrown away in school cafeterias due to ‘the stupidity of [federal] regulations.’

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Students find 26% of trash to be recyclable

Apr. 21, 2015

A teacher is faulting one school’s recycling system after his students discovered 26-percent of trashed items were actually recyclable.

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University pledges to spend more on local food without raising costs

Apr. 21, 2015

The University of Utah has joined the Real Food Challenge, pledging to spend 20 percent of the school’s food budget on ‘real food’ over the next five years.

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