EPA Recognizes University of Arizona for Efforts to Reduce Wasted Food
SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented the University of Arizona with an award for outstanding efforts in food recovery. The students, food service staff and university leaders, along with the Tohono O’odham Nation’s San Xavier Co-operative Farm and the City of Tucson worked together to increase food recovery by 1,232% from 2013 to 2014. Last year, the partnership diverted 3.4 million pounds of food waste, landscape debris, and manure from the landfill
EPA Recognizes University of Arizona for Efforts to Reduce Wasted Food
Source: EPA Trash and Recycling news