Media Coverage


Queen's Gazette
 "Mr. Shah and other members of the Composting Crew have submitted a 26-page report to school administration and hope expansion will be approved within the next few weeks. According to the report, the program has the support of the dons – in a survey of 160 residents, 96 per cent feel vermicomposting is a great program for the residences."

Queen's Journal
Residences venture into vermicomposting
"What we wanted to do was a survey with some concrete statistics that showed that students in residence actually wanted this project,” Shah said, adding that he distributed surveys to 160 students. “The results were about 85 or 90 per cent of students would use composting on a frequent basis."

Queen's Gazette
Student plan targets vending machine consumption, emissions
"Mr. Shah’s motives are for the public good. He’s hoping to reduce energy usage of each machine from 20 to 60 per cent, depending on their location, and reduce the campus carbon footprint through reduced carbon dioxide emissions."

Kingston Whig
"This exciting initiative will be entirely student-driven and will include elements such as delivery and pickup of the compost nutrients, ongoing servicing of the vermicomposters, educational workshops on composting, and training other students to use the vermicomposters."