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  • Compost Your Pumpkin This Fall

    bartholomew.185@osu.edu | September 30, 2026
    Don’t let your pumpkins haunt the landfill after spooky season is over! Help next year’s pumpkins grow by composting your old jack-o’-lanterns, gourds, and cornstalks. Starting Oct. 16 through Dec. 2, faculty, staff, and students living off-campus can drop off pumpkins, gourds, and cornstalks in the labeled roll-off dumpster in the Uniprint parking lot located at 2500 Kenny Road. The site is...
    Compost your pumpkins

  • Building a Culture of Safety Beyond the Classroom

    bartholomew.185@osu.edu | September 29, 2026
    For students preparing to enter the construction industry, safety is more than a set of rules to follow on a job site. At The Ohio State University, it is a mindset that Berry Grant IV wants students to carry with them throughout their careers. Grant, senior facilities safety program manager for Facilities Operations and Development’s (FOD) Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) team, has taught...
    Berry is seen standing in front of a group of students who are gathered around him while standing.

  • Natural Gas Safety

    Nicole Holman | September 25, 2026
    To ensure Ohio State’s natural gas pipeline facilities are safe and reliable, Ohio State Energy Partners follows a regular operations and maintenance program. While this program is designed to identify minor issues with these facilities, it is important that our students, faculty and staff are aware of potential hazards. Learn how to identify and report an issue.
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  • Inside FOD’s Game Day Operations

    bartholomew.185@osu.edu | September 21, 2026
    By the time the first fans make their way toward Ohio Stadium on a football Saturday, Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) crews have already been working for hours. By the early hours of the morning they’re placing recycling cans, distributing bags to tailgaters, clearing litter, servicing overflowing containers and helping visitors navigate campus. By the time the final whistle blows on...
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  • Giving Materials a Second Life Through Recycling and Reuse

    bartholomew.185@osu.edu | September 2, 2026
    Across Ohio State, faculty, staff and students are finding creative ways to keep materials in use and out of the landfill. From recycling hard-to-recycle plastics to repurposing materials for research and other campus uses, these efforts demonstrate how collaboration can help extend the useful life of materials. Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) Recycling and Refuse Services (RRS) works...
    Numerous small plants in black plastic cups with white paper identifiers sticking out of them.

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