CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – The University of Virginia has received a little more than half a million dollars to expand its food waste reduction and prevention programs.
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has provided UVA with $536,539, funds that originate from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant program, to continue building food rescue and composting efforts.
Andrea Trimble, the Sustainability Director at UVA, says the money will go towards a wide variety of purposes, including expanding the Free Food Alert program to preserve food from different events and games, investing in new technology to track food waste across UVA’s dining halls, and increasing the presence of compost bins across Grounds…