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Montreal Gazette - Big Hanna lays waste to 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ trash

Published: 20 October 2010

It's Waste Reduction Week and to mark the occasion, 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ has just unveiled the latest addition to the campus -- an industrial waste composter named Big Hanna.

The T240 industrial composter, located under the overhang of the Wong Chemical Engineering building, came to 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ thanks to the persistence of the student-run Gorilla Composting, with support from 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's Office of Sustainability, Generations Pact Environement Canada EcoAction and the Students' Society of 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ.

Big Hanna is expected to convert 62 tonnes of 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's organic food waste a year into six tones of "black gold," compost which will be used to fertilize the lawns and flowers on 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's downtown campus. By next year, its expected to be processing 150 tonnes of old lunches.

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