POSTED AT 12:50 PM
We see a lot of food waste every day in the cafeteria. Maybe we can find out what other schools are doing. Here is a link to a school in Maine that has an incredible garden program going. http://www.schoolgardenproject.com/
Count me in, I'd love to help.
Parents-What do you think is the most important thing we can teach your children about their role in protecting the environment? How do we get kids to care?
Sometimes My children and I walk down our road with a garbage bag and pick up all the trash that people have carelessly discarded. They become aware by doing and seeing so the gardening idea is a great one. The cafeteria leftovers I would assume would be enough for your garden but you can also have kids split up into groups.One group does the planting, one does the raking and weeding etc...
another way of being earth friendly would be to reuse the oil (if any) from the cafeteria. At my job, a company comes and picks up the used oil, leaves a clean container for us to fill and they pay us for it. They also donate 5 cents per gallon to the make a wish foundation and use to oil for fuel in some machines and cars.
Angela,I love your idea - I will have some students look into oil use and recycling in our cafeteria.Thanks!!
Just curious about a detail. My understanding of ecology and green-ness throughout the years is that it is better not to try to compost oils or meat (I think primarily to avoid attracting undesirable critters). Were the thoughts to compost ALL food waste or just the non-fats and non-meats? Maybe I am not current on practices? Anyway, I'm happy to help where I can!
I think it would be best to focus on raw vegetable and fruit waste at snack time and at lunch. This alone would seriously cut down on waste while increasing student awareness. As far as oil goes, IF the cafeteria has a fryalator, the oil can be recycled as a fuel source. Some kids are going to ask about this today.
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