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Montreal Gazette - Big Hanna lays waste to 91ɬÂþ trash

Published: 20 October 2010

It's Waste Reduction Week and to mark the occasion, 91ɬÂþ has just unveiled the latest addition to the campus -- an industrial waste composter named Big Hanna.

The T240 industrial composter, located under the overhang of the Wong Chemical Engineering building, came to 91ɬÂþ thanks to the persistence of the student-run Gorilla Composting, with support from 91ɬÂþ's Office of Sustainability, Generations Pact Environement Canada EcoAction and the Students' Society of 91ɬÂþ.

Big Hanna is expected to convert 62 tonnes of 91ɬÂþ's organic food waste a year into six tones of "black gold," compost which will be used to fertilize the lawns and flowers on 91ɬÂþ's downtown campus. By next year, its expected to be processing 150 tonnes of old lunches.

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