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A 2012 waste audit revealed that USD's waste consists of 51% comingled recyclables, 41% solid waste, and 5% cardboard. All three of these waste factors and percentages would decrease significantly from the implementation of a tupperware program at USD. Additionally, Dining Services has already been approached and asked to establish a program like this several times in the past. Furthermore, not only would a tupperware system allow all three of USD's largest waste contributors to take a backseat and decrease their harmful impact on the sustainability goals of our campus, it would also allow our university to rank higher on the national list of eco-friendly and green college campuses.
USD students who are in support of this necessary program typically carry their own tupperware around with them in order to eliminate their own food waste. Below is a picture of a USD student offloading Students even offload the remaining food on her plate thier plates into a the plastic container containers that she reuses dining services distributes across campus every day:. By reusing the plastic enclosures distrubuted by the school, the single use plastic becomes multi-use. However, a sustainable tupperware system is the best alternative to the growing problem of food and plastic waste at our university.
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