Composting Plans

Rachel and I were looking at ways we can improve our school and our world. We found that waste is an obvious issue for a campus of this size. We both believe that the school offers many positive options for recycling. Yet, a huge portion of waste..food, cant be recycled. To combat this students should be given opportunities to compost their foods. We discovered that there is currently a very positive compost system in place on campus, as we found that 150,000 tons of food waste was composted during the programs initial year. But since the two of us were unaware of it, we thought probably there were other students who also are unaware of this program. So, for our project Rachel and I are looking at the current composting system on campus and considering the benefits of the program as well as what is working and what isn’t. I realized that the system currently has only two drop points, therefore Rachel and I plan to find a way to make the program more accessible to students and staff on a larger scale. We also want to get the word out and inform more people of this positive program. To do this we plan to interview students and staff to come up with the best possible ways to reach students in order to inform them of the program as well as educate students on how they can participate. Finding ways to get students involved is vital in our opinion. And making it accessible and understandable is our goal. We really are excited to learn more and to get involved.