[Garden] food services compost donation

[gcmichal at envmail.uwaterloo.ca]

Do we  need to be providing such good-willed, but elaborate and  
time-consuming acts of charity for Food Services when what UW really  
needs is to develop a comprehensive at-source composting plan?  Other  
universities manage to figure such things out, but UW has been ducking  
the problem for 20 years and has never responded responsibly to good  
efforts (mostly from students and student organizations) to have them  
implement even the simplest components of a sustainability plan, such  
as composting. I've gone to several conferences on campus  
sustainability and it's embarrassing to see how backward UW is  
compared to other campuses and how badly it treats  
progressively-minded and energetic students and their organizations  
who have great ideas and are willing to help out. It's a kindly act to  
help them, but not a set-up that should be continued indefinitely. The  
stupidest example of UW's behaviour was when Minolta Hagey students  
through their own initiative put in a small composter.  Meanwhile a  
rat - yes one lonely rat - was seen running around in the underbrush  
over near Environmental Studies so a giant meeting was convened with  
23 different participants from around campus to address the "rat  
problem" and Minolta Hagey was ordered to remove its composter, even  
though there was no evidence whatsoever that a rat had ever visited  
it. I had to be at the bizarre meeting; it was obvious that the real  
rats were over at UW administration.

- Greg Michalenko

- Greg Michalenko

Quoting wendy michaud <wmichaud at sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>:

> Ok, sorry for the vagueness of my previous posting on the matter, but I
> think (?) I have a schedule worked out now...
>
> We can pick up food scraps from food services tuesdays and thursdays around
> 3pm at the loading dock in Village 1.  I can take care of this myself for
> the most part but will be away from June 13-28th, and will thus not be able
> to make pick-ups those two weeks.  So unless I have a guarantee from someone
> who can pick up stuff on all or some of those four days (June 16,18,23,&
> 25), I'll just tell them to hold off till I return.  Pick ups consist of two
> to four buckets of stuff, so it might be handy to have a vehicle, bike
> trailor, or a few unsuspecting friends to bring along.  I just rinse out the
> buckets and bring them back next time I pick stuff up.
>
> If anyone has time to help out while I'm away let me know!
>
> - Wendy
>
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> Department of Biology
> University of Waterloo
> 200 University Ave. West
> Waterloo, ON Canada  N2L 3G1
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> wmichaud at sciborg.uwaterloo.ca
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