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Consider the Bag!!

A short movie from our friends at Free Range Studios.

GustieWare Facts

As we approach the end of the academic year, I thought it might be good to get some facts up about GustieWare–our reusable take out containers. Gustavus serves about 5,500 meals per day in our MarketPlace with roughly 25% of them in the form of take out. Disposable take out box (corrugated cardboard) consumption at […]

Big Hill Student Farm Begins Composting Today!

The Big Hill Student Farm members will begin collecting produce waste from the Dining Service Kitchen today to begin the process of establishing a compost pile for their garden. Student volunteers will pick up four, 5 gallon pails of vegetable and fruit scraps daily to get the compost started. The Dining Service has committed to […]

Gustieware!!…It’s EVERYWHERE!

Yes, it’s everywhere all over campus, in residence halls and apartments and classrooms and offices…..just waiting for the kind soul who borrowed it to return it so it can take another tour of campus with another kind soul who will return it to go again and again and again and again….. It’s also been reported […]

Video: A Day in the Life of GustieWare

Sarah Lundquist, a current Gustavus student, recently created this great video titled, “A Day in the Life of GustieWare” for her Public Discourse class. I wonder how long it took to do all of that stop-motion animation…

Why aren’t we “going trayless???”

Recently, a student queried Dining Service Director Steve, about the possibility of eliminating trays as a way of saving energy and reducing food waste. Here’s what I had to say about that matter, back in September, when colleges across the country rolled out their new trayless programs. (The piece was published in the Free Press […]