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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won the Carolina Recycling Association’s annual award for Outstanding Composting or Organics Recycling Program.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won the Carolina Recycling Association’s annual award for Outstanding Composting or Organics Recycling Program.

Each year, the Carolina Recycling Association (CRA) recognizes a business, government agency, school, organization or large-scale compost facility in North or South Carolina that has designed and implemented an outstanding composting or organics recycling program.

Selection was based on demonstrated waste reduction and an educational component. The award was presented to UNC on March 26 during the CRA’s 19th annual conference and trade show in Spartanburg, S.C.

Carolina Dining Services, the Department of Lab and Animal Medicine and the Grounds Department are responsible for the achievement. Together the recycling efforts of these three groups make up 38 percent of this year’s total campus recycling. In total, 2.3 million pounds of food waste, animal bedding and yard waste were composted or recycled from campus last year.   

Carolina Recycling Association Web site: http://www.cra-recycle.org/
UNC Facilities Services Waste Reduction Web site: http://www.fac.unc.edu/WasteReduction/

Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling contact: BJ Tipton, (919) 962-1442, btipton@fac.unc.edu
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu

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