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The choices made by institutions do make a difference and a recent article in the Boston Business Journal backs that assertion. According to the Journal, several Boston-area colleges are going green as sustainability becomes increasingly popular among campus dining halls.

Among other steps, food scraps are taken from campus dining halls and used as natural lawncare fertilizer and feed for hens. The article in the Journal reports,

Sustainability is all the rage on campuses across the state. And as colleges are going green, the dining hall has become the grass-roots center of activity with food scraps becoming food for farm animals, broken down into fertilizer and compost, and greasy vegetable oil is turned into fuel for vehicles.

Some of the schools with dining halls taking part in the fast growing sustainability movement include the University of Massachusetts' Dartmouth campus, Merrimack College in North Andover, Tufts University, and the University of Massachusetts' Lowell campus.

If you’d like to read the article in the Boston Business Jourmal cited above go to: Campus dining halls put more green on the menu