We Are Helping Grow Food And Flowers

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.

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