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Sustainable Management of Food

Fact Sheet About the Food Scraps Diversion Program at Rutgers University

This fact sheet describes how Rutgers University diverts food scraps from their dining facilities to a local farm for use as animal feed.

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Feeding Animals - The Business Solution to Food Scraps (PDF)(2 pp, 743 K, October 2009, EPA530-F-09-022)