There are two sides to this though. There should be a sane middle ground. At a college, maybe the thing to do is have a fire sale on (or give away) things that

There are two sides to this though. There should be a sane middle ground. At a college, maybe the thing to do is have a fire sale on (or give away) things that are about to expire. I remember that my college food service had a policy that food that was considered waste had to be thrown in the dumpster, and not doing so was grounds for being fired. A friend had to throw out around 20 pounds of fresh fruit every Friday because the venue that they were at wasn't open over the weekend.