Montreal Gazette - Big Hanna lays waste to ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ trash
It's Waste Reduction Week and to mark the occasion, ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ 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 ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ thanks to the persistence of the student-run Gorilla Composting, with support from ±«ÓãÖ±²¥'s Office of Sustainability, Generations Pact Environement Canada EcoAction and the Students' Society of ±«ÓãÖ±²¥.
Big Hanna is expected to convert 62 tonnes of ±«ÓãÖ±²¥'s organic food waste a year into six tones of "black gold," compost which will be used to fertilize the lawns and flowers on ±«ÓãÖ±²¥'s downtown campus. By next year, its expected to be processing 150 tonnes of old lunches.
