At the urging of EcoOpportunity Team representatives, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Operations has provided additional composting stations on each departmental floor, making it even easier for everyone to do the right thing by composting! If a department is hosting an event in a conference room, the person organizing the event is responsible for ensuring that trash, recycling, and composting receptacles from the elevator lobby on that floor are brought into the conference room for the event. Of course, please return the composting container to its original container post-event so that the custodial staff is able to remove the compost before it starts…well…composting!
In addition, this past fall, HSPH installed new waste stations for compost, trash, and recycling in the cafeteria area. During the beginning of each new semester, as well as during special occasions such as Earth Day, volunteer “composting ambassadors” stand near the recycling stations and help instruct confused cafeteria-goers about the proper way to dispose of their waste items. Many of these composting ambassadors are members of the EcoOpportunity Team. If you’d like to volunteer your lunch in order to improve the composting program, please contact greenideas@hsph.harvard.edu.
The HSPH EcoOpportunity Team partnered with Harvard’s Office for Sustainability in order to create a “sustainability display case” in the walkway connecting the Kresge building with FXB. Currently, the visual composting display has the actual items that can be composted, such as napkins, tea bags, coffee stirrers, and all the compostable products available in Sebastian’s café. These biodegradeable products include Sebastian’s plates, clamshells, soup bowls, cutlery, straws and straw wrappers, coffee cups (but not the lids⎯they need to be recycled!), and clear cups (they look like plastic, but they’re actually made from corn!). If you forget, just take a look at the display!
For additional information, visit the greenideas@hsph.harvard.edu.
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Volunteer “composting ambassadors” stand near the recycling stations and help instruct confused cafeteria-goers about the proper way to dispose of their waste items.