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Campus Food Giveaway A Big Success At Johns Hopkins

April 13, 2017: 12:00 AM EST
A Johns Hopkins University undergraduate partnered with a recent graduate to launch a project to give away food left over from campus events as a way to keep edible leftovers out of the dumpsters. Sponsors of campus events were surveyed to see if they were receptive to the idea, and 70 percent said they were. Students themselves were overwhelmingly in favor. Nemo Keller and Leana Houser then conducted a trial of the Free Food Waste Remediation initiative during the recent spring open house weekend (SOHOP) at the Homewood campus (Baltimore, Md.). Initially the idea was to just donate leftover food to worthy causes, but the logistics were too complicated. They instead tried email blasts to students, telling them when and where the food was available. It worked because, after all, “Who doesn’t want free food?” Keller said.  [Image Credit: © Nemo Keller, Johns Hopkins ]
Morgan Ome, "Free Food Initiative Reduces Waste on Campus", The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, April 13, 2017, © The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
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