Group 22 – Think&EatGreen@School – Assessing & Developing a Vancouver School’s Organic Waste Management Strategy
With the help of LFS’s Think&EatGreen@School project initiative four years ago, Grandview Elementary School became an Earth-friendly school (elimination of gravel fields and set-up of a school compost). Group 22 was put in charge of assessing the school’s Earthtub and planing ways to make their 3-compost system work in the cafeterias. The team found that the compost was being misused due to students putting non-compostable items in the bins; because of this, the school stopped using the bins. In order to re-implement the compost program, Group 22 made signs for the compost bins designed to help students discard their food scraps properly. In addition to the signs, the group members held compost-how-to workshops in the school and spent a day transferring compost from a nearby community garden to the school fields. The team feels that their work will have a positive effect on the school’s food system and believe that the students, teachers, and themselves learned a lot and will use that knowledge practically in their lives.
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