New Sustainability Incentive!
Sustainability Punch Cards - When students take their own reusable coffee mug, they can get the cashier to punch their card.  After 8 punches, you receive 2 free refills! 

View our Sustainable Dining Practices brochure here!

A new campus sustainability report was got released by the National Wildlife Foundation, and UVa Green Dining is profiled for the Trayless Dining section!  Check it out on page 38 here!

Click here to learn about UVa Dining's sustainability initiatives!

Keep up with Green Dining at UVa here at Kendall's blog: http://uvagreendining.blogspot.com/

Reusable To-Go Containers
Interested in reducing your environmental footprint?  Sign up for Dining's reusable to-go container program today!  Here's how:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IEl96PFVsA

1. Sign up with your name, email address, and refundable $7 deposit at any of the three dining halls or dining retail location that serves hot food items.
2. Receive two key cards.
3. Redeem one key card for a reusable to-go container.
4. Keep the container as long as you need, and return it (dirty) to any of the aforementioned dining locations -- you don't have to return it to the location from where you initially got it.
5. Upon returning your dirty container, receive either a key card or a clean container in exchange.
6. Get your safety deposit refunded at the end of the year if you can return the necessary materials (key cards and/or reusable containers).

Please email Kendall Singleton, U.Va. Dining Sustainability Coordinator, with any questions at kendall.singleton@virginia.edu.

Singleton Hired as Sustainability Coordinator
UVA Dining is proud to announce that we have hired Kendall Singleton as our new Sustainability Coordinator. Kendall was a founding member of the current Green Dining coalition of U.Va. Dining. She graduated in '07 and completed an eight-month internship in the fields at Sperryville's Waterpenny Farm. She was hired to continue the amazing success that U.Va. Dining has enjoyed in the past five years of greening their facilities and local food offerings. Contact her at kendall.singleton@virginia.edu  

Working closely with the University of Virginia’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety, UVA Dining received state certification for its commitment to environmental management.   Significant aspects and impacts that UVA Dining performs in order to reduce its impact on the environment include recycling packaging waste, cooking oil, and grease; minimizing waste water traveling to water treatment plants; and reducing emissions of ozone depleting substances ( VEEP application ).   UVA Dining is the first higher education dining operation to have reached the Environmental Enterprise (E2) level in the Virginia Environmental Excellence Program (VEEP).