Comparison Chart of College Composting Programs
Comparison Chart of College |
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| Dartmouth College | Off-campus: formerly windrows, now hi-tech facility, jointly with city of Hanover | Handles all food and compostable waste as well as sewage sludge from Hanover | windrows=20,000 lb. for first 8 months | windrows= Minimal, covered by Buildings and Grounds and Food Services | windrows= net savings of $10,000 for first 8 months | Windrows1992, Composting facility- 1998 |
| Ithaca College (NY) | Off-campus: Pre-consumer waste only; aerated static piles | Computerized temperature controlled off-campus facility | 5 tons/week or about 160 tons/year | Initial cost of machinery and setup = $67,000 | Not available, but diverts about 13-15% of total waste stream | 1993 |
| Johnson College (VT) | Passive pre-consumer waste, vermicomposting. Also, research on post-consumer composting by windrows and aerated windrows | Small holding piles on concrete slabs aerated by pipe; 12 vermi-composting demonstration projects in community | N/A
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| University of Waterloo-Ontario | Windrows, Wooden Bins, Vermicomposting | N/A | Windrows compost about 10-15 tons/year | N/A
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Windrows since early 1970's wooden bins since 1996 |
| Texas A&M University | off-campus Animal Science facitiy (with close neighbors), in-vessel composting | 7 EarthTubs, 7 Comp-tainers, using animal waste and bedding | N/A
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| Tulane University | 3+ Large Recycled, Wooden Bins | Proposal Stage | N/A | N/A
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| Cornell Univeristy | Off-campus windrows facility | Agricultural waste, and pre- and post-constumer food | 4151 tons/year (incl 700 tons of food) | Provided from the tipping costs of food removal paid by food service | product applied to college farm, will reduce tipping fees from food service | 1992 for agricultural waste, 1998 for food waste |