Welcome!
Welcome to the Monona Terrace Research Project webpage. This project began August 2010 and has diverted nearly 10 tons of kitchen food waste from the landfill. Not only have these efforts saved landfill space, they also reduced the production of methane, a gas 20x more potent than CO2.
Instead, the organic materials were composted into a nutrient-rich soil amendment which is sold to area farmers and used on campus landscaping projects. Based on EPA estimates, the Monona Terrace and its partners within the University of Wisconsin-Madison have prevented more than 9.7 tons of CO2 equivalent from entering Earth's atmosphere in the past nine months, even accounting for food waste transportation to the compost site (Visse, 2004).
This project was made possible through a University of Wisconsin Solid Waste Research Grant, support from We Conserve, and the dedicated staff of Monona Terrace and Monona Catering.
Please feel free to send comments to zeise@wisc.edu regarding the project.
Thanks!
Lea Zeise
Updated 5/4/2011
Instead, the organic materials were composted into a nutrient-rich soil amendment which is sold to area farmers and used on campus landscaping projects. Based on EPA estimates, the Monona Terrace and its partners within the University of Wisconsin-Madison have prevented more than 9.7 tons of CO2 equivalent from entering Earth's atmosphere in the past nine months, even accounting for food waste transportation to the compost site (Visse, 2004).
This project was made possible through a University of Wisconsin Solid Waste Research Grant, support from We Conserve, and the dedicated staff of Monona Terrace and Monona Catering.
Please feel free to send comments to zeise@wisc.edu regarding the project.
Thanks!
Lea Zeise
Updated 5/4/2011
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