Word: walcott
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...university now uses styrofoam cups, which tend to comprise landfills because they do not decay naturally. "The switch is a move toward the national direction of cooperation in the interest of ecology," says Benjamin Walcott, assistant director of dining hall services. The university, which uses more than 100,000 cups per week,will have to pay twice as much for the new cups,he said...
...real problem for the landfills," saidRobert Malone, treasurer of the Bay Colony PaperCorporation. "In all communities the cost of trashdisposal has gone up due to problems of space,"agreed Walcott...
...Benjamin Walcott, assistant director of Harvard Dining Services, said that the last known incident of food poisoning on campus occurred more than 10 years ago in one of the Quad dining halls. Walcott credits the dining halls' practice of not reusing food for the low incidence of contamination...
...last food poisoning incident seems to me to have been 10 years ago or perhaps more," Walcott said. "Because our menu items are prepared for a specific meal and are not carried over [to the next meal], there is, in my opinion, less of an opportunity for a food-borne illness here than there might be in a restaurant," he said...
Operating the 21-meal service run $2036 for an academic year, as compared to $1635 for Brown's 20 meals and $1736 for Penn's 15 meals. "You have to look at how many meals are available for that cost," Walcott says. "You also may or may not be aware that although entitled to 21 meals, the average student eats 14, and the cost is adjusted to that...