Hands-on education and waste audits for campus compost.
STATUS: ACTIVE
SOCIAL: https://www.facebook.com/enufCanada
WEBSITE: https://enufcanada.ca/
ADDRESS: 8986 Croissant du Louvre, Brossard, Qc
SCHOOL: Concordia University
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
ENUF (originally “Waste Not, Want Not”) began as an event-based food festival focused on fighting food insecurity and reducing waste. It has evolved into a B Corp and cooperative dedicated to providing hands-on education, waste audits, and resource redistribution services across student campuses in Montreal.
Programs:
1. Green Brigades: Team members stand next to waste stations at campus events to help attendees properly sort waste (compost, recycling, trash).
2. Surplus Food Redirect: They coordinate the collection of untouched, surplus food from catered events and ensure it is delivered to community fridges/pantries.
3. Waste Audits & Consulting: They offer waste auditing and composting education services for on-campus groups.
Facilitated by the nonprofit organization enuf Canada.
KEY CHALLENGES:
- Managing waste at the larger scale, high-traffic university events is a massive challenge
- Behavioural change- Shifting the sorting habits of student body require constast and repetitive education.
KEY SUCCESSES:
- Pioneering Campus Model: ENUF successfully transformed the concept of “waste management” from a janitorial task to a high-profile, educational event service, setting a new standard for campus sustainability.
- Successful Replication: Incorporation as a B Corp in 2020 proved the model’s viability, allowing them to expand the Green Brigade and surplus food services to other student campuses across Montreal.
- Food Security Impact: Their system successfully closes the food loop by collecting untouched surplus food and redirecting it to campus community fridges, directly reducing both waste and student hunger.
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SERVICES
- Educational events
- Waste audits
- Co-hosts community fridge “Megans Fridge”
To Volunteer
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TIMELINE
2016: Started as a five-day food festival, reaching 1,500 people per day.
2017: Signed a three-year contract with the Concordia Student Union and Sustainable Concordia for educational services.
2019: Concordia University provided $15K in funding for #CUcompost Waste Ambassadors to work at campus events.
2020: The group incorporated as a new B Corp, ENUF, to replicate the work done at Concordia in other institutions.