5C Bo Collins Parth Sean Marc

All your vegetable and fruit wastes, (including rinds and cores) even if they are moldy and ugly Old bread, donuts, cookies, crackers, pizza crust, noodles: anything made out of flour! Grains (cooked or uncooked): rice, barley, you name it Coffee grounds, tea bags, filters Fruit or vegetable pulp from juicing Old spices Outdated boxed foods from the pantry Egg shells (crush well) Corn cobs and husks (cobs breakdown very slowly)

Food and Food-Soiled Paper Composting All food scraps can be composted, such as vegetables, meat, poultry, seafood, shellfish, bones, rice, beans, pasta, bakery items, cheese, coffee grounds, eggshells and more. All food-soiled paper can be composted too, including: Paper cups and plates Paper towels, placemats and napkins Milk and juice cartons Parchment Paper Paper bags Pizza boxes and other food containers Waxed cardboard boxes

Every day, school cafeterias feed thousands and thousands of hungry students. But what happens to all that food that doesn’t get eaten? Most of it ends up in our nation’s landfills, where it emits unhealthy methane gas and odors that attract vermin and pests.

The rest is recycled into an eco-friendly biomass that can be reused as a soil amendment, either on your school’s own grounds or sold for use elsewhere. In addition, the money saved on hauling all that waste to the landfill will eventually more than make up for the initial equipment investment in the Food Cycler.

Americans waste an astonishing 27% of our available food, contributing to the global food crisis, global warming from methane emissions, and profligate energy use. According to the US Dept. of Agriculture, saving just 5% of the wasted food could feed 4 million people per day! Unfortunately, literally millions of tons of taxpayer-subsidized school lunches are sent to the landfill. Read two articles about food waste and discover what you can do that will red

Recently, for instance, I was surprised to see kids lining up for seconds at lunch before some kids had even been served their first portions. Turns out what they wanted were the meatballs that came with their whole wheat spaghetti. Otherwise, the pasta along with a wonderful green been salad, a side of corn and a whole wheat roll all went into the garbage can.