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News: Goals - Achieve Zero Waste

  • In the News: Students Create Interactive Wagons

    holman.126@osu.edu | May 5, 2023
    The Lantern recently highlighted a collaboration between Facilities Operations and Development (FOD), the Sustainability Institute (SI) and Susan Melsop, professor of design, to prompt conversations about sustainability and campus composting. FOD and SI shared guidance and informational resources about composting and well as logistics coordination for the interactive wagon roll-out. ...
    students listening to presentatio on oval near wagons

  • Campus Composting: Spreading Seeds and Sustainable Reads

    mckivergan.1@osu.edu | April 19, 2023
    From handmade seed paper to a student-designed fold-out magazine, Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) is partnering with a Design Activism course to get the word out about composting around campus. When Associate Professor of Design, Susan Melsop, approached FOD and the Sustainability Institute about working together on the Design Activism for Sustainability project, FOD Zero Waste Manage...

  • Join the Campus Clean-Up on April 18

    mckivergan.1@osu.edu | March 29, 2023
    Updated: April 7, 2023 Please Note: Registration is now closed. Celebrate earth month and environmental wellness by joining Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) on April 18 for a spring campus clean-up. Volunteers will be entered into a special drawing to receive a Zero Waste kit, including a Buckeyes Compost t-shirt, a Hydroflask water bottle and a compost bin for...
    Pink flowers on the oval with a tree in the background

  • Recycling the Present, Saving the Future: The Results of Ohio State’s Waste Characterization Study

    mckivergan.1@osu.edu | March 29, 2023
    The results are in from Facilities Operations and Development’s (FOD) two-phase waste characterization study on waste and recycling generated on Ohio State’s main campus. Baseline data was collected in fall 2021 as part of phase one and multiple waste program enhancements were made to improve how materials were being managed on campus, including: Food waste composting collection expande...
    Students sorting waste and collecting comparison data.

  • In the News: Ohio State participates in race to zero campus waste

    mckivergan.1@osu.edu | March 7, 2023
    Ready, set, recycle! The Lantern featured Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) in an article on the university competing in The Campus Race to Zero Waste. The competition aims to encourage students, faculty and staff to recycle more, recycle right and compost. "If the faculty, staff and students were to put recyclables in the correct bin, Ohio State could increase its landfill div...
    Race to Zero Waste Campaign

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