Daily Iowan

Issue date: 10/25/07 Section: Metro

UI engineering student Holly Moriarty, who spearheaded a successful effort last year to bring a food-compost program to the university, said that if UI students see the savings that could occur, they might actually care about wasting less food.

"The more they take and waste, the more money it is costing them to purchase meal plans," she said.

Although he said he hadn't heard of the program, UI freshman Dan Pepper voiced his support for it Tuesday afternoon while eating at Burge.

"I think it's a good idea [if] it eliminates food waste," said Pepper, who said he usually doesn't have a lot of leftover food.

Perkins said that although the Clean Plate Club will run only this week, it will continue through advertisements on food waste throughout the year. Whether students actually participate in the program remains to be seen.

"It's up to the students to get on board and realize some of the consequences of taking so much food just to throw it away," Jordan said.

E-mail DI reporter Shawn Gude at:

shawn-gude@uiowa.edu

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