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  • Join the Campus Clean-Up on April 18

    Brooke McKivergan | 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 your kitchen! Research...
    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

    Brooke McKivergan | 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 expanded from 39...
    Students sorting waste and collecting comparison data.

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

    Brooke McKivergan | 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 diversion...
    Race to Zero Waste Campaign

  • Campus Race to Zero Waste Kicks Off

    Brooke McKivergan | February 7, 2023
    Campus Race to Zero Waste has officially started! For the next eight weeks, Ohio State will be competing against other universities across the country to determine who has the highest landfill diversion rate! Students, faculty and staff are asked to participate by recycling more, recycling right and composting. Ohio State achieved a record-high landfill diversion rate of 40% this year. While we...
    Race to Zero Waste Podcast

  • In the News: Aparna Dial on Protecting People and the Environment

    April 20, 2021
    Aparna Dial approaches sustainability with a view through three lenses: She immigrated to the United States from India. She’s a woman in a male-dominated field. And she’s been an eyewitness to the ways environmental impacts do not affect everyone equally. That perspective leads her to propel discussion and action when it comes to issues such as the inequities of environmental impacts and the...
    Aparna Dial

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