From the Desk of Shelly Duran General Manager Sodexo Education Services Missouri State University
Greeting Blog Friends,
Where have I been? The Month of October is always crazy for us with Show Case, Family Weekend, Homecoming etc...this year was particulary interesting because we also hosted a conference for about 400 people in the midst of all that craziness...but I am back and please allow me to update you on somethings
Something very exciting is about to being for us, we are going to begin composting waste in Blair-Shannon Dining Center. We serve around 19000 meals a week in Blair-Shannon and we are anticipating composting around 3500 lbs of waste on a weekly basis. This waste will be turned into compost and then will be utilized by our grounds department. If all goes well with this test site we will extend this same process to the rest of the dining centers sometime next spring. This is just another step that we are taking to really provide a more sustainable enviroment for Missouri State University.
We have also seen an usually high amount of waste in the dining centers this semester so we will begin a "Waste Awareness" campaign to try and help educate and bring awareness to our students regarding the massive volumes of food that is wasted every day in the dining center and perhaps through awareness we can pursue the possibility of reducing at least some of that waste. Be sure to look for the flyers and posters in regards to this campaign...we are going to begin offering incentives for students to help us reduce the amount of waste in the dining centers.
I will be sure to keep you up on how the entire composting project is going and what successes we are experiencing in the process. Best of luck with mid-terms and the remainder of the semester!