NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) _ Composting projects at several Connecticut universities are helping turn cafeteria leftovers into environmentally friendly soil for farms and campus gardens.
This summer, Yale University will deliver its waste to a Litchfield County composting plant to be transformed into potting soil. Officials at the New Haven university estimate about 2 tons of cafeteria food is discarded each day.
"Food, even when you can no longer eat it, is still a resource," said C.J. May, Yale's recycling coordinator. "Burning it or dumping it in the landfill is a real shame."
Yale estimates as much as 40 percent of its trash is organic. By composting the waste instead of burning or burying it, Yale hopes to cut greenhouse emissions, meet new sewer requirements and perhaps save money.
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