{"id":51854,"date":"2018-07-20T10:27:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=51854"},"modified":"2018-07-20T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:29:36","slug":"composting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/composting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash to treasure: NAU&#8217;s composting machine turning food waste into fertilizer (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Produced by\u00a0<strong>Chris Strobel <\/strong>and reported by <strong>Corderro McMurry<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>NAU-TV<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As the awareness level of how harmful trash is to the environment\u00a0continues to grow, people throughout the world are doing what they can to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>For some, that means skipping the straw, bringing reusable\u00a0bags to the grocery store or buying in bulk to reduce the use of single-use plastics. For Northern Arizona University, it means implementing the <a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/o2go\/\">O2GO reusable\u00a0container program<\/a>, promoting a <a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Recycle-sign.pdf\">reduce, reuse and recycle initiative<\/a>\u00a0and most recently, launching a composting program.<\/p>\n<p>Meet\u00a0Somat, the machine\u00a0that turns the 1,500 pounds\u00a0of food waste a day into nutrient-rich soil that is not only reducing trash output\u00a0but also fertilizing campus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Compost\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ecPPWkxqr2g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/composting\/\">Produced by\u00a0Chris Strobel and reported by Corderro McMurry NAU-TV As the awareness level of how harmful trash is to the environment\u00a0continues to grow, people throughout the world are doing what they can to make a difference. For some, that means skipping the straw, bringing reusable\u00a0bags to the grocery store or buying in bulk to reduce&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":51875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}