Harvard University Dining Services

In keeping with October's Green Tip on water conservation, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is offering a discounted reusable water bottle. HUDS asks: "Did you know that it takes roughly 2/3rds as much water to make a bottle as it does to fill it?"

It was a fight to the end, but in the end, Leverett House took home the 2007 Green Skillet, crushing any dreams Quincy House had of being a two-time champion.

On September 11, 2008, a total of 60 grill orders were left abandoned in Cabot and Pforzheimer dining halls. Plates of chickwiches, cheeseburgers, bean burritos, grilled chicken breasts, and Boca burgers all waited patiently to be claimed, but to no avail. Food was ordered but ultimately forgotten. This was food waste at its worst.

During the 2008 calendar year (January 1 - December 31), Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) was able to divert 36,565 paper cups from the trash through its 23 Pound Mug and discounted coffee refill program. The re-usable travel mug, whose name comes from the amount of paper trash that will be diverted by one using the cup daily for a year, is sold at cost at HUDS retail dining locations. Coffee purchased in that, or other re-usable mugs, is discounted at all retail sites.