Time flies when you are composting food waste! It’s hard to believe that 2 years ago today we picked up the first cart full of food waste from UK Dining. Since that first pick up, the University has composted over 100...
Tag - Food Waste
Joanna Ashford
Ask the Expert: Food Waste and Fighting Hunger
During Waste Reduction Week, UK Recycling interns organized a documentary screening on food waste – Just Eat It. It’s free on YouTube, so go watch it! Sometimes documentaries can seem overwhelming and leave...
Samantha Udarbe
W. T. Young Races to Zero Waste!
How much waste does one building create? Is it possible that a couple of changes can create real change? Those were all questions I set out to figure out when I enrolled W.T. Young into the Zero Waste Building Challenge...
Ask the Expert: Food Waste
During Waste Reduction Week, UK Recycling interns organized a documentary screening on food waste – Just Eat It. It’s free on YouTube, so go watch it! Sometimes documentaries can seem overwhelming and leave...
The Campus Kitchen at the University of Kentucky
A student-powered hunger relief effort in the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at the University of Kentucky (UK), the Campus Kitchen at UK (CKUK) is more than just an organization – it’s a family. Our...
Turning Food Waste Into Useable Material
The University of Kentucky took another important step toward its sustainability goals with the launch of a food waste composting program earlier this week. The effort will reduce the amount of material...
How One UK Student Started Food Waste Collection in a Residence Hall
Sometimes environmental issues seem too big for one person to make a difference. Food waste can be one of those topics. Thankfully, Caleb Gooden, a Sophomore at UK, decided to try and do something about food waste...
