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Food Recovery Heroes won a state Zero Waste Excellence Award

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51精品视频 student group Food Recovery Heroes was recognized for its environmental leadership with a Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC) Zero Waste Excellence Award, presented at PRC鈥檚 fourth annual Zero Waste Event.

Since its start in 2014, Food Recovery Heroes has worked to recover more than 28,000 pounds of surplus food from campus; fighting hunger while keeping leftovers out of landfills. It聽also has inspired a student-supported composting initiative that is advancing toward the goal of composting 50% of campus food waste by 2025.

The Zero Waste award is icing on the cake for these heroes, whose efforts led to 51精品视频鈥檚 recent recognition in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Food Recovery Challenge.

Read more about these sustainability-minded students in this 2017 51精品视频wire feature.

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