Food Waste and the College Campus

Anyone who's ever eaten or worked in a school dining hall has seen first hand how much food gets wasted every day. In an effort to reduce UCLA’s carbon footprint, a group of students calling themselves Waste Watchers are working to decrease the amount of food wasted in campus dining halls.
The students, members of a for-credit Action Research Team on campus, collect and measure food waste in the dining halls. Then they use the information to educate fellow students on the need to reduce waste and to make more organic and sustainable food choices.
The work is part of UCLA's climate action plan, which predicts UCLA is on track to reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2012. This is eight years earlier than previously anticipated!!! To learn more about the Climate Action Plan and UCLA 's sustainability efforts, visit www.sustain.ucla.edu.