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Blog Archives

UWCC'S blogs from 2018 and earlier. For our recent blogs, check out our blog on Medium here.

Interesting Composting Facts

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Chicken Manure is a great alternative for fertilizers: Chicken manure is not only a great fertilizer for gardens, but it is also a great...

Five Things You Never Knew You Could Compost

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Among the numerous benefits associated with the composting, the process provides composters with a natural fertilizer while finding a...

A Different Type of Composting

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The typical household composting operation consists of placing the leftover waste from human consumption in composting containers, and...

Solutions to Common Compost Problems

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For the most part, composting should be easy: Reduce waste production by recycling organic materials. But sadly, you may run into some...

The Region of Waterloo’s Waste Management Efforts

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While the University of Waterloo’s Campus Compost is continuously making an impact on campus, how is the Region of Waterloo helping the...

Composting on Vacation

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You are relaxing somewhere nice and calm: at the beach, in a cottage, at an amusement park. Anywhere but Waterloo, studying for your...

DIY Kitchen Compost Bin

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As there are more compost bins being implemented on UW’s campus, it will be a whole lot easier to compost our food and organic waste. But...

The Plight of the Modern Omnivore: The Realities behind Food

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As creatures of the city, we have become accustomed to the seemingly natural supermarket. We browse down aisles of food without a second...

Biodegradable Plastic Challenge

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Many of us may wonder why biodegradable plastic is not widely used, despite its presumed ability to decompose in a shorter amount of time...

Winter 2017 Notice

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Due to our drum decomposition speed in winter temperatures and weather conditions, we are not collecting from our locations this term....

Composting: Seeing Beyond the Process

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A child in Waterloo plays glumly with a blue truck on his driveway. He pretends it’s a garbage truck, and he imagines himself driving...

Mission

UWCC aims to promote a campus-wide composting service at UW from diverting organics from the regional landfill, as well as raising awareness of zero-waste practices.

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