The Environment

Tuna Wiggle Rides Again

The destiny of Dartmouth's daily discards will no longer be the traditional landfill, thanks to the new Hanover/Dartmouth composting facility. Unique to any college in the country, Dartmouth will compost edibles, paper, and boxboard products into healthy reusable soil. Although the facility takes "leftovers" from all: oyer town, the College contributes the lion's-share-some ten tons of trashed food per week and nearly 200 tons per year of paper. Here's how" the system works: The waste-goes through a sterilization process in which Nutrients are added until a specific carbon-nitrogen balance is reached. The compost is then subjected Iff to temperatures of 150 to 170 degrees for five days to kill toxins and pathogens; Ninety days later soil emerges, some 1,00 cubic yards by theen d of the year. Ther's already pent-up demand for the dirt. Over the next five years up to 5,000 cubic yards will be used at the Dartmouth Organic Farm and in the construction of the new tennis facility, rugby, math, and psychology buildings, and the Baker-Berry Library.