Our school is part of the Food to Flowers Lunchroom Composting
Program. We have a yellow barrel in our lunchroom for food scraps and
dirty paper, like napkins and paper bags. Lunchroom leftovers get taken
to a compost facility where worms, bugs, bacteria and fungus work
together to break it down, and turn it into compost. Compost is
nutrient-rich soil that will help grow food and flowers!
Thanks to everyone for putting food and dirty paper in the yellow
barrel. Instead of being sent to the incinerator, your lunch leftovers
are on their way to becoming nutrient-rich soil that will be used to
help grow food and flowers. Isn’t that great?! Thanks for your support
of the Food to Flowers Lunchroom Composting Program.
Here’s how many pounds of compost schools kept out of the trash in September:
King Open/Cambridge St Upper School – 1,550 pounds
Graham & Parks – 1,280 pounds
Peabody/Rindge Ave Upper School – 1,940 pounds
Cambridgeport – 720 pounds
Tobin/Vassal Lane Upper School – 1,540 pounds
CRLS – 2,770 pounds
For more information about this program, please contact Meryl Brott, Recycling Program Manager at 617.349.4836.