Anabel’s Grocery is a student-run nonprofit initiative at Cornell University that aims to provide fresh, affordable, nutritious, and locally-sourced food to students. As a student leader at Anabel’s, I have been particularly interested in reducing the store’s carbon footprint through container and food waste. For the former, I aimed to reduce our distribution of egg cartons, plastic containers, and paper cups and bags by 50 percent from last fall to this fall by encouraging customers to bring their own reusable containers through incentive programs. For the latter, I hosted biweekly pop-ups with discounted produce to sell our local cabbage, broccoli, beets, carrots, and other locally-grown vegetables before they reached the compost pile, and co-launched a Free Food Fridge with a group of other undergraduate students to divert excess food from campus events and cafes. I intend to continue these efforts in the spring to help catalyze a culture of circularity among the Cornell student body — and to bring Anabel’s one step closer to its zero waste goals.