Sustainability

At Tufts Dining, we see food as a solution to many of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Tufts Dining has long been at the forefront of pursuing green goals in collegiate dining. Our commitment to sustainability guides all our operating decisions – from arranging for all food waste to be composted to choosing the most energy-efficient appliances for our units.

By the Numbers

• Tufts Dining serves more than 2 million meals each year across 10 locations.
• Between 2019 and 2023, we reduced our carbon emissions by 22%.
• In FY25, 23% of all foods purchased by Tufts Dining were grown or processed within 250 miles of the Medford/Somerville campus.
• We have distributed approximately 1000 reusable take-out containers through a Green Container program we introduced in residential dining centers during fall 2019.
   

Sustainability Initiatives

Food is integral to our traditions, celebrations, and culture. Campus dining food choices—what the university serves and what guests eat—influences student health and the health of the planet. Those choices are linked to disease prevention and control, to the livelihoods of more than one billion people around the world, and to our ability to alter the course of climate change. Click below to read more about Tufts Dining's focused sustainability initiatives.