While Vanderbilt has been recycling leaves for more than 20 years, a new initiative is transforming the university’s massive pile of leaves into usable compost to nourish plants and trees on campus. The Ground Department worked with Students Promoting Environmental Awareness and Recycling (SPEAR) and Nashville’s Gardens of Babylon, to make this happen. The first batch of rich, dark compost was recently spread under the trees that previously shed those leaves.
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