Pick Your Portion
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“Why waste it? Pick your portion!”

  • The first step in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Food Recovery Hierarchy is to reduce food at the source by simply throwing away less food.

  • Our goal is to reduce the waste each student creates in the dining hall by only taking what we want.

    • Use this language to specify your order while in the dining hall to reduce food waste!

 
Look for these stickers in the dining halls to remind you how to specify your order!

Look for these stickers in the dining halls to remind you how to specify your order!

 

What the stats say:

  • According to the FDA, 30-40% of food is wasted, ~133 billion pounds of wasted food annually

  • Each person wastes ~20 pounds of food waste per month (from the FDA)

  • Costs money to waste the resources (water, energy, and labor)

  • The remaining pre-consumer waste can more easily be recovered by organizations like the Food Recovery Network in the future

Estimate your serving size using these household items as a visual!

  • Baseball = 1 cup (i.e. of vegetables, pasta, cereal)

  • Deck of cards = 3oz of cooked poultry or meat

  • iPhone = 3 oz of cooked fish

  • Golfball = 2 tablespoons

  • Poker chip = 1 tablespoon

Give ASG Feedback on the Program!

We hope you are using and enjoying the "pick your portion" stickers in the Dining Hall! Regardless, we'd love to hear your feedback! Please provide your candid and anonymous opinions to ASG’s Infrastructure & Sustainability Committee by clicking the button below!