From CFAES’ “Chow Line” column, here are tips for how to pack your lunch for work or school with less waste.
recycling
Green ways to get rid of old electronics
What to do with an old computer? Cell phone? Video game console? Get tips for disposing of them sustainably (or sometimes not even buying them in the first place) from CFAES field specialist Dan Remley. It’s the latest in CFAES’ Sustainable Action through Video Engagement series.
CFAES sustainability news, Feb. 15, 2022
Rumpke unveils plans for new Columbus recycling center
Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 8, 2022; featuring Ohio State Sustainability Institute
Is the coronavirus in your backyard?
New York Times, Feb. 7, 2022; featuring Linda Saif, CFAES Center for Food Animal Health
CFAES sustainability news, Dec. 8, 2021
‘Nudges’ can reduce plastic bag use even where bans or fees are banned
Planetizen, Dec. 8; cites research by Wuyang Hu, CFAES Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
CFAES sustainability news, March 29, 2021
Trash talk: How waste audits can empower kids to protect the planet
National Geographic, March 18; Nicole Sintov, School of Environment and Natural Resources, quoted
Watch: Here’s how to use less single-use plastic in your kitchen
OSU Extension’s Sustainability Team is starting a new series of videos on living more sustainability in your home and community. First up: how to reduce the use of single-use plastic in your kitchen. Watch it above.
OSU Extension is CFAES’ outreach arm.
What to do with a Christmas tree after Christmas? A quick Q&A with 3 experts from CFAES
Sales of real Christmas trees “are booming as pandemic-weary Americans seek solace,” said a recent headline in the New York Times.
That’s good news for Christmas tree growers, like these in Ohio. But in the interest of recycling and reducing solid waste, what are some good green options to do with a Christmas tree after Christmas?
Here are suggestions from three CFAES experts.
So you’ve got an old pumpkin to get rid of …
Pumpkins rotting in landfills produce methane, a climate change-causing greenhouse gas, and an especially scary one at that—it’s 20 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
So, if you don’t send your old pumpkin out in the trash, destined for burial in a landfill, what’s the best thing you can do with it?
We talked to three experts from CFAES for options. Spoiler alert: Sometimes (dun dun dun) they come back.
‘This is what our world has to start doing’
As a sustainability intern with Ohio State’s Zero Waste team, CFAES student Melina Mallory, pictured below, spent most of every football game day this season helping divert the tons of waste generated at Ohio Stadium—the beverage cans, nacho trays, and more from 105,000 people—away from landfills and into composting or recycling.
How did she and the team do? Here’s a hint: The football Buckeyes aren’t the only ones ranked No. 1 in the country.
In a recent Ohio State story, Los Angeles native Mallory, an environmental science major specializing in water science in CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources, said, “To be at Ohio State where you have a platform to show people this is what our world has to start doing, and we are doing it, is pretty cool.”
Read the full story. (Photo: Ohio State News.)
See 4 unique ways NE Ohio is composting
This year’s Composting in Ohio tour, set for Aug. 22 and co-sponsored by CFAES’ Ohio Composting and Manure Management Program (OCAMM), will feature four unique large-scale composting facilities located in Cleveland and Akron.
Tour-goers, organizers say, will get a close look at the sites’ operations and a chance to learn from experts.