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...house’s representative for the Harvard College Resource Efficiency Program (REP), you’d expect me to love the recently introduced plan to pilot a trayless-dining night at Quincy House, and I do. But I also have a strong sense of concern regarding the project’s outcome: because it has so much merit, and some potential pitfalls, it really has to be done right, to be understood by students not as a month-long inconvenience, but a practical, tangible step in the service of sustainable living...
...pilot, dubbed “Trayless Thursdays at Quincy” by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), will be an excellent chance for HUDS to show that two of its objectives—making students feel like they are at home and feeding 6400 hungry mouths daily in the most economical and environmentally friendly way—are not fundamentally at odds. The experiment, if paired with sufficient information, will also give students some insight into just how huge an environmental impact the food on their plates...
...while students may feel inconvenienced by trayless dining at first, I hope they will open their minds and consider the benefits associated with that inconvenience. After all, if they had trays at home, they’d probably have to wash them themselves...
Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) announced last week that it will begin a trayless dining initiative, which aims to curb food waste and encourage healthy portion selection. The initiative will begin in beta form this semester in Quincy House for the month of February. House residents dining on Thursday night (Quincy’s community dining night) will forgo trays for plates and cutlery only. The plan was unveiled in a pamphlet for Quincy House residents that featured a list of the top ten reasons to embrace trayless dining. Aside from the usual (and compelling) reasons to eat without...
...balancing plates through a bustling dining hall just became a whole lot harder, at least for Quincy residents. For the month of February, Quincy House will not provide trays during its Thursday community-only dinners, unless a student specifically requests one. Quincy’s “Trayless Thursdays” came as the result of a collaboration between Quincy House officials and the Resource Efficiency Program, a group that aims to educate students about sustainability. Harvard University Dining Services spokeswoman Crista Martin said that those involved hope that eliminating trays will help achieve a number of environmental...