Food Waste

Working with colleagues across the University, TU Dublin was the first University to pilot the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Food Waste Tool. The tool provides users with a mechanism to utilise existing waste bills to reduce food waste. Now, with a deeper understanding of the amount and type of food waste generated on campus, TU Dublin is eager to take steps to reduce it.

The EPA-IUA Campus Living Labs Project (Campus Living Labs) project is a two-year partnership project between the EPA and the Irish Universities Association (IUA). Recognising that university campuses are exemplary ecosystems to test and trial effective interventions for waste management and recycling, the ambition of this project was to deliver evidence to inform campus sustainability programmes and advance activities that will introduce systemic change in preventing waste and increasing recycling on campus.