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	<description>a look at how America squanders nearly half of its food</description>
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		<title>Trayless</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, colleges and universities are eliminating dining hall trays to cut down on food waste. Here&#8217;s a somewhat chronological list of who&#8217;s doing what:
St. Joseph&#8217;s College (ME)&#8211;Started the whole thing (blog)
Colby College (ME)&#8211;&#8221;Trayless Thursdays&#8221; for the last few years
Northwood University (FL)&#8211;Trayless since Fall 2006
San Francisco State (CA)&#8211;eliminated trays (blog)
Middlebury College (VT)&#8211;Trayless since Fall 2007
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Increasingly, colleges and universities are <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jackcentral.com/2008/02/21/removal-of-trays-could-save-money-and-waistlines/">eliminating dining hall trays</a> to cut down on food waste. Here&#8217;s a somewhat chronological list of <strong>who&#8217;s doing what:</strong></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws">St. Joseph&#8217;s College</a> (ME)&#8211;Started the whole thing (<a title="Wasted Food post on the topic" target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/09/26/buffet-sans-tray/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws" /><a target="_blank" href="http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story_pf.php?id=136139&#038;ac=PHnws">Colby College</a> (ME)&#8211;&#8221;Trayless Thursdays&#8221; for the last few years</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=36888f53-180c-499c-a9b4-470402f6fc36">Northwood University</a> (FL)&#8211;Trayless since Fall 2006</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/009191.html" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/009191.html" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/009191.html" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/009191.html" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/009191.html" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/009191.html" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/009191.html">San Francisco State</a> (CA)&#8211;eliminated trays (<a title="Wasted Food post on the topic" target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/10/24/less-tray-a-ok/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.middleburycampus.com/media/storage/paper446/news/2007/09/26/News/Dining.Team.Trades.In.Trays-2990986.shtml">Middlebury College</a> (VT)&#8211;Trayless since Fall 2007</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml" /><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thevistaonline.com/media/storage/paper962/news/2007/10/11/FrontPage/Chartwells.Helps.Manage.Waste-3027259.shtml">University of Central Oklahoma</a>&#8211;Trayless for October, 2007 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/10/24/less-tray-a-ok/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thehullabaloo.com/media/storage/paper958/news/2008/01/25/News/Dining.Services.Promote.Environmental.Awareness-3171704.shtml">Tulane University</a> (LA)&#8211;Every meal, every day, starting in 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/30/trays">Alfred University</a> (NY)&#8211;Trayless across campus, starting in 2008<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1032">UC Santa Cruz</a> (CA)&#8211;One day, Jan. 29, 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521687">Harvard</a> (MA)&#8211;One dining hall, four nights in February, 2008 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/02/05/zeitgeist-thrift/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2008/03/06/News/Trayless.Experiment.Successful-3256052.shtml">University of Connecticut</a>&#8211;One dining hall in February, 2008 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/30/ucan-do-it-uconn/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://morrisvilleauxiliary.blogspot.com/2008/01/win-zune.html">Morrisville State College</a> (NY)&#8211;Optional for February, 2008 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/01/25/friday-buffet-20/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2008/02/19/22969/">Ohio University</a>&#8211;Experimented with it, February, 2008 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/02/20/the-trayless-tab/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20080219-9999-1n19trays.html">San Diego State</a> (CA)&#8211;Fridays starting in March, 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/29669">Columbia University</a> (NY)&#8211;weekly pilot program, spring semester, 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&#038;section=news&#038;id=9643">Williams College</a> (MA)&#8211;weekly program, started March, 2008 (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wastedfood.com/2008/03/07/friday-buffet-25/">blog</a>)</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://discoversustainability.org/?p=20">University of New Hampshire</a>&#8211;weekly program, spring semester, 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/campus_11496___article.html/students_cars.html">Elon College</a> (NC)&#8211;Trayless across campus, February, 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/19/m1a_trays_0319.html">Palm Beach University</a> (FL)&#8211;trayless campus, gave away trays.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/03/19/m1a_trays_0319.html">University of Florida</a>&#8211;one-week experiment, April 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flathatnews.com/opinions/2168/new-co-ed-program-tackles-assault">William &#038; Mary</a> (VA)&#8211;trayless experiment, spring 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://public.wartburg.edu/trumpet/2008/02-25/earth.html">Wartburg College</a> (IA)&#8211;one week experiment, March-April 2008</p>
<p>University of Alaska Fairbanks&#8211;one week experiment, March 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://ordway.umt.edu/SA/documents/fromWeb/DiningTraylessReducesWasteandMore.pdf">University of Montana&#8211;Missoula</a>&#8211;pilot project, April 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.studentprograms.vt.edu/publications/trayless.php">Virginia Tech</a>&#8211;one-week experiment, April 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.kansan.com/stories/2008/apr/25/food/">University of Kansas</a>&#8211;Earth Day trial, April 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://media.www.thetriangle.org/media/storage/paper689/news/2008/04/18/News/Students.Question.Trayless.Tuesdays-3335391.shtml">Drexel University</a> (PA)&#8211;&#8221;Trayless Tuesdays,&#8221; started April 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://westernfrontonline.net/200804259909/news/going-trayless-for-earthweek/">Western Washington University</a>&#8211;Earth week experiment, April 2008</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://chips.luther.edu/2008/05/01/trayless-week-waste-decreases-84-percent.html">Luther College</a> (IA)&#8211;Trayless Week, April 2008</p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;ve heard that these schools have gone trayless, but I can&#8217;t find links:</strong></p>
<p>Dartmouth College (NH)</p>
<p>Skidmore College (NY)</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>Evergreen State College (WA)&#8211;trayless during Earth Week 2008
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