Food, water & recycling

We reduce. We reuse. We recycle. 

Gettysburg College buys local produce and grows food on campus with compost from dining waste. Students distribute pre-consumer leftover food to local individuals and agencies. Disposable cups and containers are made from corn, napkins from 100-percent post-consumer material.

Year after year, water usage has plummeted even as the campus has grown, thanks to everything from low-flow fixtures to automatic recycling of dishwasher water.

We have won state and national honors for recycling. Our decade-old, campus-wide program runs the gamut placing bins in every residential room on campus to a student house dedicated to sustainable living, from reusing office and residence-hall furniture to selling departing students' donated reusable items for charity—and more.

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