{"id":2765,"date":"2016-09-01T15:18:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T15:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:30:29","slug":"best-waste-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/01\/best-waste-workplace","title":{"rendered":"UW Bothell recognized for sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Douglas Esser<br>\n足彩app哪个是正规的 University of Washington Bothell has been named one of the 112 <a href=\"http:\/\/your.kingcounty.gov\/solidwaste\/garbage-recycling\/best-workplaces.asp?utm_content=buffer87ead&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer#uw_bothell\">best workplaces in King County for waste prevention and recycling<\/a>, thanks to some red wriggler worms among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/wormbed-close--1-.jpg\" alt=\"red wiggler worms\" class=\"wp-image-25929\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>足彩app哪个是正规的 county\u2019s solid waste division has been compiling the list of best places outside the city of Seattle for a decade, but this is the first year UW Bothell has been recognized for \u201cexceptional commitment\u201d to recycling and reducing waste sent to landfill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>足彩app哪个是正规的 recognition is largely the work of Cassie Lubenow, below left, who came to campus in June as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/campus-sustainability\/\">sustainability coordinator<\/a>. She says she documented the University\u2019s practices to draw attention to the work of others over the past decade or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She credits Tony Guerrero, associate vice chancellor for facility services, with spearheading energy efficiency measures, pushing for a pesticide free campus and starting a bed of red wriggler worms to compost food scraps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/cassie-lubenow-side.jpg\" alt=\"Cassie Lubenow\" class=\"wp-image-25930\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Tyson Kemper, right, grounds supervisor, executed the pesticide-free campus and some related composting and water conservation practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/tyson-kemper.jpg\" alt=\"Tyson Kemper\" class=\"wp-image-25931\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lubenow also says all the campus gardeners are dedicated to sustainability, including maintaining the 58-acre wetland on campus. And, they play a role in helping educate students by cooperating with researchers and environmental classes, such as a \u201cgarbology\u201d class taught by Rebeca Rivera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c足彩app哪个是正规的 goal is to train students to train other people,\u201d Lubenow says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With recycling and composting there should be almost nothing in campus trash cans, says Lubenow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a perfect simple system here to experiment with the future of urban development. We can be a pilot project for what the city of the future should look like,\u201d Lubenow says. \u201cThat\u2019s what universities should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good example of such a practice was the work Aug. 30 on a campus lawn, left. 足彩app哪个是正规的 lawn was being transformed from sod to flower bed using a process called sheet mulching. Recycling old newspapers from the library, gardeners covered the grass with sheets of paper and covered it with mulch. 足彩app哪个是正规的 layer of paper blocks grass and weeds until it breaks down, Kemper says. By next spring, the flower bed should really take off, attracting bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sheet-mulching.jpg\" alt=\"gardeners sheet mulching\" class=\"wp-image-25932\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will be a mad pollinator bed for sure,\u201d says Kemper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheet mulching is an organic practice that grew out of the decision to stop using pesticides on campus about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe just went cold turkey,\u201d Kemper says. \u201cWe decided to commit to 100 percent organic practices from day one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That led to changes in watering, pressure washing, using leaf blowers and composting. Instead of being trucked off campus, yard waste is now composted in bins near the sports fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the gardeners who regularly turns the compost to give the microbes oxygen is Marshall Leroy, right, a 2016 environmental studies graduate with a summer job on campus. Coffee grounds from Food for Thought give the compost a nitrogen boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/marshall-leroy-mulch.jpg\" alt=\"Marshall Leroy\" class=\"wp-image-25933\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leroy checks on a pumpkin patch growing out of a compost pile with several varieties of pumpkins, including one that may top 100 pounds. 足彩app哪个是正规的 pumpkins are destined for a carving contest on Oct. 24, National Food Day and the kickoff for a campus garden near the compost bins alongside the sports field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leroy also helps maintain the bed of red wriggler worms that devour uneaten fruits and vegetables. Some food preparation scraps (but no bread or meat) from the campus Subway shop find their way here, says Lubenow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/marshall-leroy-pumpking.jpg\" alt=\"Marshall Leroy and pumkin\" class=\"wp-image-25934\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thrusting his hand into the decaying mass of organic matter crawling with worms Leroy exults, \u201cThis is pretty great to be honest. 足彩app哪个是正规的se worms are great! 足彩app哪个是正规的y work so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>足彩app哪个是正规的 end product is worm castings, a perfect fertilizer to be used back on campus. \u201cIt\u2019s just worm poop,\u201d Leroy says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>足彩app哪个是正规的 University of Washington Bothell has been named one of the 112 <a href=\"http:\/\/your.kingcounty.gov\/solidwaste\/garbage-recycling\/best-workplaces.asp?utm_content=buffer87ead&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer#uw_bothell\">best workplaces in King County for waste prevention and recycling<\/a>, thanks to some red wriggler worms among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[213],"school":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-sustainability"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":"","link_2":"","link_3":"","link_4":"","link_5":""},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":"","button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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