Pre- and Post-Consumer

Composting
Group 3: Bruno Lima, Carlo Tueros, Juan Ramirez, Karina Almanza
May 2, 2017
Professor: Joan Frank
FSM 120L
What is Composting?
Recycling Decomposed Organic Materials

Some Types: Backyard, Worm, Grass Cycling

What is pre- and post-consumer
composting?
Pre-Consumer Composting: Post-Consumer Composting:
Preparatory Food Table Scraps
Refuse
What Can Be Added to Compost?
 Strategies: Pros
Advantages

Environmental
Landfills
Yard Waste
Gardens
Contaminated Waste
Anyone can do it!
Can adjust to your lifestyle
Strategies: Cons
Disadvantages

Health and Safety

Foodborne Illnesses
E. coli
Unwanted Pests
Nutrient Imbalance
Carbon to Nitrogen ratio
Requires Effort
 Alternatives to Composting
Vegetable scraps Vegetable broth

Creative recipes

Stems of Kale, Broccoli Pesto

Food and garden weeds chicken food

Grass Clippings back to grass

 UC System Policy
Reduction, reuse, recycling and composting are the primary methods to be counted
toward the municipal solid waste diversion from landfill goals

Hierarchy for primary methods for waste reduction: Goals for waste reduction:
1. Reduction 50% June 30, 2008
2. Reuse 75% June 30, 2012
3. Recycling Each UC has a Zero Waste Program with
the ultimate goal of having 95% waste
4. Composting
diversion by 2020
 UC Davis Strategies
Fruit and Veggie Up and The Pantry
Commercial Biodigesters (Dr. Zhang)
Food waste Clean Energy
UC Davis 50 tons of organic waste per day
20,000 tons to reusable energy per year
Compost Bins on Campus
Compost Facilities
University Events
University Catering distributes only compostable and recyclable
material for catering events.
 Individual UC Campus Strategies
Proactive students are the core of composting efforts at the UC level:

UC Davis

Student housing residence halls

Centralized organic waste bins

Northern recycling compost facility

Project compost
Individual UC Campus Strategies
UC Berkeley: Compost Alliance
UC Irvine: Waste Management Partnership
UC Santa Barbara: Compostable items
 Other Strategies
Starbucks - Grounds for Your Garden
Sustainable Harvest
Fertilizer project
Tea time & coffee flour
Caffeinated cars
Sonoma Compost Company
1,600,000 tons compost
Versatile processing - vegetative food discards & yard trimmings
 Discussion
A site that we have visited which deals with Pre- and Post- Consumer
Composting is Cuarto.
Have you seen any Pre- and/or Post- Consumer Composting at any other site
you have visited?
Ways to participate in composting:
BE PROACTIVE, on campus, at your favorite restaurant, in your
community.
 Questions
True or False: When using compost to grow vegetables, what
materials are not allowed to be used?
What are some precautions to consider when beginning to
compost?
What are some strategies done at UC Davis to encourage
composting?
 Resources
1. http://homeguides.sfgate.com/pros-cons-composting-41835.html

2. http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/3100155/Sustainable%20Practices

3. http://sustainability.ucdavis.edu/progress/waste_reduction/index.html#expandi
ng
4. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/college-campuses-take-food-wast
e
5. http://www.recycleworks.org/compost/

6. http://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.cfm?number=B1189

7. http://www.sustainableharvest.com/fertilizer-project/