Instead of contributing to climate change with the methane gas that food waste creates, Seneca is composting it. The Rocket® is a machine at Newnham and King campuses that composts the organic waste collected from the kitchen and food-service areas at Seneca. This waste is combined with woodchips in the Rocket’s enclosed system where access to pests is prevented. The machine’s high heat process destroys pathogens and transforms the waste into nutrient-rich compost in 14 days. Together, the two rockets can process about 1,400 kilograms of organic material per week that’s later used on campus for landscaping.
Waste Reduction
Organics
Impact of Composting
CAPTURE RATE
80.4%
of organic products at Newnham Campus
ORGANICS PROCESSING
1,750L
weekly capacity of the Rockets
COMPOST MATERIALS
330kg
collected at Newnham Campus weekly
COMPOST MATERIALS
1,100kg
collected at King Campus weekly
LANDFILL DIVERSION
939
petrol tanks of emissions avoided yearly at King Campus
Source: Sustainable Seneca