Buzz About Sustainability

Sprint’s Enterprise Real Estate Team, based in Overland Park, KS initiated a partnership in the summer of 2008 with Missouri Organic Recycling (MOR) to collect all biodegradable food waste at the Overland Park Headquarters’ dining cafes. MOR is a local, family owned and operated company that specializes in composting food waste. Together, Missouri Organics is helping us divert the maximum amount of unused cafeteria product waste from community landfills.

Discard is collected from prep areas, dirty plates and perishable unsold items. Paper napkins also go in the food waste collection along with paper cups. But the program doesn’t end there. We’re also putting waste back into the usable stream of landscape materials that literally enrich the earth and its vegetation, soil, and trees.

Missouri Organic’s award winning compost program kept 3,100 tons of waste out of landfills in 2005 alone. Most of the compost products sold by MOR, and purchased by Sprint for the Overland Park campus landscaping, are made from waste that might otherwise be burned, put in a landfill or dumped illegally.

And we’re pleased to say that our efforts are not totally unique. Radical cafeteria changes are under way at other green-minded companies like Microsoft. Check out their dramatic dining difference and learn a whole new way to clean your plate.