As part of its commitment to creating a sustainable future, Charles Sturt University (CSU) will open up its ‘Closed-Loop Organic Recycling System’ for public inspection in Wagga Wagga on Tuesday 6 May. The open day coincides with ‘International Composting Awareness Week’. Servicing 4 000 staff and students and maintaining 88 hectares of campus grounds, the system collects and processes organic materials from University facilities such as ovals, lawns, horse stalls, the Winery, catering, the CSU farm and offices. CSU’s Division of Facilities Management has worked with the Riverina Eastern Regional Organisation of Councils (REROC) to tackle issues of continual green waste management. “We’ve enabled CSU to become an example of best practice for managing organic waste,” said CSU’s Mr Will Pollack. “The program currently saves around 200 tonnes of waste going into landfill and this figure is continually growing as the program expands.”