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CAMPUS CLOSES FACILITY, SUPPORTS LOCAL COMPOSTER
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BioCycle
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June 1, 2008
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Ithaca, New York
Ithaca College began a campus composting program in 1993 as a means to divert food scraps. The program became a service offered by the Facilities Department, but was only tangentially connected to the college's educational mission, because it is not an agricultural school, explains Mark Darling, Ithaca College's Program Coordinator for the Recycling/Resource Management division. "The primary reason for closing our facility was the opening of Cayuga Compost," says Darling. "This ...