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Happy Earth Month!
To celebrate Earth Month, we participated in the Spring Wellness Festival, hosted a Weigh the Waste in the cafeteria, held a virtual discussion on home gardening, tabled in the Piazza to discuss water conservation, and hosted Dollar Cup Day to promote reusable foodware items! Check out our Instagram Post on the importance of celebrating Earth Day every day.
If you missed our home gardening discussion, the recording is available on Youtube!
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Weigh the Waste is Back!
This semester, we hosted two Weigh the Waste audits in the dining hall! Weigh the Waste is a program designed to raise awareness about food waste. Every month, the Office of Sustainability partners with Sodexo to scrape plates of leftover food, organize it on to trays, weigh the food, and leave it out through the rest of the day for a visual representation of our waste. Our first audit of the semester produced 152 lbs of food waste, and the second produced 92 lbs, each during one lunch period. It's time to reduce our food waste!
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Preparing for Move-Out
April is the perfect time to start preparing for move-out from the dorms! Instead of throwing away items that are in good condition, consider donating them. We plan to provide donation boxes for clothing, e-waste, bedding, and furniture. Stay tuned for more details for a sustainable move-out!
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Introducing Our New Sustainability Manager!
We are pleased to welcome Jenny Kaufman to the Office of Sustainability as Chapman's new Energy Conservation and Sustainability Manager. Before coming to Chapman, Jenny worked as an Environmental Specialist for Phillips 66. She graduated from Texas A&M University in 2018 with a B.S. in Bioenvironmental Science and is originally from Sugar Land, Texas.
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