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2020 Green Purchasing Awards announced The pandemic has been an opportunity to reevaluate air travel policies, according to Green Purchasing Award recipient Megan Ryerson. A shift in kitchen waste streams designed by Award recipient Cheryl Hickey will stop approximately 12,000 cups from reaching a landfill each year. The University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 Green Purchasing Awards, presented by Penn Purchasing Services and Penn Sustainability, were recently announced during the award recipients’ virtual staff meetings. Ryerson is the UPS Chair of Transportation and associate dean for research in the Weitzman School. In the Spring of 2020, Ryerson incorporated a new aspect to her course CPLN 750: Advanced Transportation Seminar. In a novel approach, she collaborated with Purchasing Services and tasked her graduate students with exploring the sustainability impact associated with Penn’s air travel consumption. Ryerson organized students into groups to assess

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