Sustainable SFU is encouraging diners at the Mackenzie Café and the Residence Dining Hall on the Burnaby campus to put their organic leftovers into special waste bins during a post-consumer waste audit in the last two weeks of January.

The audit results will lay the groundwork for establishing a new university composting program that would see organic waste redirected to large earth tubs on campus.

Third-year student Christopher Mulvena, who is helping to organize the audit, says a pre-consumer waste audit last summer found there was enough waste during meal preparations alone to warrant such a program.

"We’d like to see a composting program begin this semester," says Mulvena, who notes that many other post-secondary institutions already have such programs.