 Do you ever wonder what happens to your uneaten food scraps left behind on your plate after a meal? On the green has a state-of-the-art composting system that ensures that your food waste is diverted from a landfill and instead disposed of sustainably. After you place your dishes on the return rack in OTG, all of the food enters a grinder. This grinds the food into small pieces that then shoots through the piping into an extruder. The extruder eliminates all of the water from the food, leaving a pulp that is ready to be dehydrated. Next, a dehydrator uses high heat to turn the food pulp into a usable soil-like compost that is then picked up by our partners Go Zero and used around the Cincinnati area for landscaping. This system in place greatly helps decrease our carbon footprint. But what can you do to take action? First, in order to waste less food, only take what you can eat. Sometimes our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, so it's best to eat a small portion first and go out for seconds if we're still hungry. Second, you can spread the word and pay attention to our customer-facing, clean path boards by the dish returns in the dining centers. These boards will project the pounds of food wasted per day. We hope this brings some awareness and mindfulness to guests in our dining centers. Every guest has an opportunity to make a difference.