Letter to the editor: UNBC needs to look after its food waste

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Letter to the editor: UNBC needs to look after its food waste
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'The university never took governorship and leadership to oversee a compost program'

UNBC keeps calling itself a green university but what about the food waste that has been going to the landfill?

UNBC has been operating in partnership with Prince George Public Interest and Research Group to divert food waste since 1995. Also, PGPIRG is a student-directed, student-funded non-profit organization based at UNBC. PGPIRG would recruit volunteers every semester, and the participants However, it was PGPIRG who took the responsibility from the inception to maintain the compost program running at UNBC. On the other hand, the university never took governorship and leadership to oversee a compost program. Further, in winter 2019, PGPIRG announced that it would stop running the compost program at UNBC. One reason was because PGPIRG is a small research group, and they rely mainly on volunteers.

And now why should I sort and care about recycling food waste? The best answer I can give you is because we are all in this together: on this earth, we only exist because we are protecting the environment, and the environment keeps us alive.

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