Today during our regularly scheduled Bi Sci class, Team Stratz was set up in the first floor of Gaige. We had our poster all set up and welcomed stragglers to learn about the work being done with the Food Recovery Network. Many people walked by and displayed interest into our topic. We discussed our board and had many great discussions with people walking by! In these two pictures, Team Stratz is shown as well as the board we produced! We look forward to presenting on Thursday during class!
Haven’t you caught up with the steps of Sailor Moon to reduce the food wastes? Come to our Earth day Presentation located at the Perkins Plaza on April 21st and enjoy the ride with us to save the wastes!
Want to have a preview of our presentation?
We will provide a simple, understandable post board showing you the problems and solutions about the food wastes on campus; handouts depicting the results of our survey completed by all the international students. Go ahead and grab a handout for your reference, discuss it with your friends during breaks and have them joined the league with Sailor Moon!
Can’t find our post board during presentation?
Look for the one with the most creative design, vivid colors, and the Sailor Moon characters located on the top right of the board. Not interested at all these items? We will provide special gift for you and we guarantee that you will find amazingly how much you can do to reduce the food wastes in everyday life!
Moreover, as we are preparing our presentation, are you on your way reducing your wastes? If you are not, then start doing it now! We hope to see you on the Earth day in our campus!!
Today during our class period, the Bi Sci group Team Stratz is seen below working diligently on our poster board as well as on the PowerPoint. Our group consists of Tina, Greg, Keeanu, Pearce, and Kyle (taking the picture). The group also previously worked on a flyer which will hopefully be displayed during Earth Day. Much more to come from this group!
During the past couple of weeks, team C.O.M.S. has worked through various steps to help set-up the new Food Recovery Chapter. The chapter is not yet officially established, however many surveys were created and passed out to take note of the abundance of leftovers on the campus. The survey our team was put in charge of was the campus based persons that eat on and off campus. The surveys will soon be all collected and we may move further with a plan of action.
Recently, our EACAP team ventured into the cafeteria on Penn State Berks Campus known as Tully’s. For an hour yesterday (4/13) and an hour last week (4/6) our group sat in Tully’s and observed the amount of people who returned various culinary objects (plates, forks, bowls, etc.) and how many of those objects still contained food. The results were as followed:
Monday 4/6: 43 people returned objects to the conveyor belt. Of those 43 people, 6 returned objects with only half of their food eaten, 16 returned objects with a quarter of their food remaining, 20 returned objects with no food remaining, and only 1 person returned an object with a full plate of food.
Monday 4/13: 32 people returned objects to the conveyor belt. Of those 32 people, 14 returned objects with only half of their food eaten, 8 returned objects with a quarter of their food remaining, 10 people returned objects with no food remaining, and 0 people returned a full plates worth of food.
A few things to note, throughout the time in Tully’s cafeteria workers walked around Tully’s and discarded odds and ends of trash. In total between the 2 days, we saw 3 garbage bags individually filled with garbage. Also, we found it interesting that as we were leaving, we noticed the trash can outside of Tully’s was practically overflowing while both recycling bins were practically empty.
Photos attached include the conveyor belt (no food present) and all three bins (Garbage, mixed paper recycling, and recycling).
This week we met with each other in Tully’s to discuss our earth day project, along with observe the food waste left behind by some students,and faculty in tully’s. We also discussed some reasearch that we have all done for the project, and some of our findings, and discussed some of the ways we could advance our project, and ideas we all had.
while doing my research I found out that in the US, 31% or 133 billion pounds of the 430 billion pounds available went uneaten in 2010. With the food by consumers being the highest at 21% ; 90 billion pounds. This is unbelievable and it saddens me because I cannot believe we waste so much food when in many other countries they don’t have any food on the table.
On Monday March 23, we had our first Food Recovery Network Meeting.
Out of the group I was the only one able to attend. In the first meeting the two leaders, Rachel and Karissa had discussed with Dr. Kazempour, if they had wanted to make FRN a chapter here at Penn State Berks, or if they had only wanted to make it a challenge for this semester. The decision for now was to start a chapter here at Berks. During the discussion the basics was just start to gathering data and information on the FRN itself and start to think of ways that we could really help out or to think about questions we could ask on a survey or interview. We asked questions like “Should we start a Facebook?” or “Should we try to start a food garden here?”. Focusing on the Food Avengers Dr. Kazempour has suggested that we do the observation proto call where we should find out exactly what we are observing and then try to execute it with making a chart, go observing in places, like our cafeteria, Tully’s, and see how often/ how much food is wasted there.
I’m excited to get started working with my group to make the observation proto call and putting it into action so that we can start saving some food!
Sailor Moon is now on its way to reduce the food wastes on campus!
We had a meeting with the coordinator of the entire Food Recovery Network, and we decided that our team is going to do the survey of all the international students of how they see the food wastes on campus as an environmental issue. Besides meeting as a whole group of food recovery network, we had our sailor moons meet several times as well. During the meeting, we decided that we are going to do the questionnaires as well as the interviews. So, all the fellow international students, are you ready to spread your ideas and thought about Tully’s (cafeteria on campus)?
Besides actions that we can do for the Food Recovery Network, we also talked about our research topic of the energy and the possible energy that is used or will be use in the future. Moreover, we are also looking for the ways to reduce the current usage of energy and the possible new energy or resources that can be use on campus.
The picture below is of our sailor moons getting together and trying to figure out a way to save our mother Earth.
On Monday (3/23) our team met with members of the Food Recovery Network parent group as well as the other groups involved through Bi Sci. We introduced ourselves and began talking about the first steps and what we would have liked to do. We ended up coming to the conclusion that it would be better and easier to open a chapter here at Penn State Berks. We believed it would be more beneficial for this class, as well as this campus, if we opened up a chapter and continued it throughout the next few years. After that it was discussed what each of the teams would like to contribute to the whole group and we were voted to construct a survey to ask commuters about. Some of the questions are as follows:
On a daily basis, how much food do you throw out? (A lot/minimum/none)
What is the top reason you throw out food? (It’s gross/I’m full/My friends did)
What can Penn State do to reduce Tully’s food waste? (Sell better food/More variety/Smaller portions)
How much food do you think your friends throw out? (A lot/minimum amount/none)
All of the group members are excited to be a part of this group and we look forward to working on this project!