K-State Composting Brings Food Waste Full Circle

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A new composting program at 23,000-student Kansas State University hopes to bring campus din-ing's food waste full circle. K-State's dining services has partnered with the campus' student farm and the college of agriculture's agronomy research facility to implement the program. Jennifer Kennedy, dining services manager, said the program all started with an intern.rn"The composting program started with an intern's summer project, which was to look into ways to work with composting," Kennedy said. "We really had no idea how much compost we would put out, but we knew that there was some food waste going into the waste stream. Just as we were lookingrnat ways to be more sustainable, composting was one area where the intern could find people on campus that could work with us."