The Story of Compost

December 2011

The ISU Compost Facility, established in 2008, collects leftover food from ISU dining services, along with other organic wastes, and transforms it into rich soil for landscaping. Find out what’s going on behind the scenes. Photographs by Shuyang Qu, ISU graduate student. More info about the facility [PDF]

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