Sustainability in Campus Dining
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Gina Rios is general manager of retail dining for the UC Davis campus. Rios discusses steps that campus dining services has taken to reduce waste and use local and organic produce for its events, and the particular challenges, for example, of finding the perfect compostable hot dog wrapper for concessions at the football stadium.
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