{"id":20843,"date":"2020-05-05T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T22:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/dining\/?page_id=20843"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:57:14","slug":"sustainable-dining","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/dining\/sustainable-dining\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Dining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-15px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|0|0px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;50px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;5px||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.3&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;24px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-4px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\"><strong>Sustainable Dining<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Campus Dining has teamed up with University Housing to decrease the impact that their departments have on the environment. Campus Dining\u00a0 follows a Sustainable Dining Program and University Housing has established a comprehensive residence hall recycling program &#8211; all designed to decrease the carbon footprint of WOU. Follow the tips and use the links below to inspire you, perhaps change your lifestyle. Do what you can with what you have to help to save your earth!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Based on the Re-duce, Re-use, Re-cycle premise, the Campus Dining Sustainable Dining initiative is a work in progress. Campus Dining has long been a proponent of Recycling, and recycles its\u2019 cooking oil, plastic, glass, tin and paper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Also, Campus Dining strives to support and purchase from local or Oregon vendors in an effort to not only support local business, but to support businesses that strive to be sustainable in their own business practices. When possible, these Campus Dining initiatives have decreased transportation costs and have helped to provide the freshest and best products available from ecologically minded vendors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Campus Dining Composts!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Implemented in 2010, Campus Dining has \u201cgrown\u201d their composting program to compost up to 80% of the trash generated at Valsetz Dining Hall! Leftover food and compostable paper products are all go into 65 gallon containers that are picked up daily by Brandt\u2019s Sanitary Service. Brandt\u2019s, in turn hauls the compostables to the Pacific Region Compost Facility (PRC) near Camp Adair. At PRC, the waste is then converted into plant and agriculture compost!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-12px|||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>Rewousable Container Program\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">Western Oregon University serves as a strong advocate for our environment and Campus Dining has long been a trend-setter in promoting sustainable lifestyles and practices. 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