Penn State students can celebrate Earth Week, April 19-23, with a swipe of their id+ card
The Nittany Lion swipes out hunger at the register in the dining commons.Image: Patrick Mansell
Penn State students can help Swipe Out Hunger during Earth Week
April 16, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. All Penn State residential campuses will host Swipe Out Hunger in conjunction with Earth Week 2021. During the week of April 19-23, students who have excess dining dollars left over on their meal plans can donate $5, $10, or $15 of their campus meal plan to the Student Emergency Fund any time they dine on campus.
The Student Emergency Fund is a program that provides short-term financial assistance to students experiencing crisis situations.
Swipe Out Hunger” event by donating $5, $10, or $15 from their campus meal plans.
To get in on the action, all you’ll need to do is let your cashier know as you check out of any dining commons across campus.
“Swipe Out Hunger” is a national nonprofit committed to ending hunger among college students. The program has been implemented at more than 130 colleges and universities across the country.
“This partnership follows recommendations from Penn State President Eric Barron’s Housing and Food Security Task Force,” Anna Sostarecz, Penn State Food Service’s sustainability coordinator
said in a release. “And we’re especially excited to partner with Swipe Out Hunger after piloting our own iteration of a dining dollar donation program in 2019. This event highlights some of the human or social elements of sustainability: Caring for each other is an integral part of sustaining the Earth.”
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To compost or not to compost? That is the question some people ask themselves before throwing out their waste.
At Penn State, composting efforts start in the dining halls and end in the facilities of the Organic Materials Processing and Education Center, where the compost then makes it way back onto campus grounds, the Student Farm and into the community.
Ryan McCaughey, manager of grounds and equipment who works closely with the composting process, said the solid waste management department collects food waste from the dining halls and waste from office composting bins, which then gets tossed with leaves and switchgrass from the Arboretum to make the body of the compost.