{"id":12101,"date":"2022-11-14T20:01:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=12101"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T04:22:51","slug":"osu-campus-recycling-outreach-team-works-with-oregon-deq-to-study-food-waste-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2022\/11\/14\/osu-campus-recycling-outreach-team-works-with-oregon-deq-to-study-food-waste-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Campus Recycling Outreach Team Works with Oregon DEQ to Study Food Waste On Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Spring 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/recycle.oregonstate.edu\/\">Campus Recycling<\/a>\u2019s Outreach Team received funding from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for &#8216;No Food Left Behind&#8217;, a food waste reduction study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1-1024x662.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12104\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1-1024x662.png 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1-1536x994.png 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1-1250x809.png 1250w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1-400x259.png 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2022\/11\/image004-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Campus Recycling conducted the study with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/get-involved\/students\/eco-reps\">Eco-Reps<\/a> &#8211; student staff who encourage a culture of sustainability in the residence halls in which they live, with programming from Materials Management and the Sustainability Office. Over this four-week study, fifty on-campus residents across 13 residence halls tracked and weighed all their edible food waste outside dining halls (leftovers, food prepared in dorms, etc.). This study\u2019s data has since been processed and is now available upon request.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some notable conclusions include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On-Campus Residents waste an average of 1.3 lbs of edible food outside of dining halls each week.<\/li><li><strong>On average, participants in the study reduced their waste by 51% over 4 weeks.<\/strong>&nbsp;This is likely due to greater mindfulness surrounding wasted food as the result of regularly tracking edible food waste (reporting all edible food waste in a food log and saving edible food scraps wasted in their dorm to be weighed). <\/li><li>One behavioral intervention introduced to 30% of participants (15 on-campus residents) involved taking a food waste reduction pledge that was displayed with their pictures in residence hall lounges. The pledge group had an average decrease in edible food waste by 65% over four weeks.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s next? Campus Recycling\u2019s Outreach Team, Eco-Reps, and student clubs like \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/recycling\/events-and-opportunities\/volunteer-opportunities\">Waste Watchers<\/a>\u2019 will be implementing the use of pledges at tabling events on campus. This effort will most likely be paired with food waste education and even the upcoming relaunch of EcoToGo! To view the full &#8216;No Food Left Behind&#8217; report, ask questions, or discuss a potential collaboration, please contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kaylee.smith@oregonstate.edu\">Kaylee Smith<\/a>\u00a0with Materials Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spring 2022, Campus Recycling\u2019s Outreach Team received funding from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for &#8216;No Food Left Behind&#8217;, a food waste reduction study. 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