A passion for sustainability is reverberating through one Georgia community.
One person's trash is another's treasure -- or a lifelong lesson on how to live sustainably -- as exemplified by students at a Georgia elementary school who have mastered the craft of composting while reducing their own food waste.
Students at Lovin Elementary School use red buckets to collect items to compost at the end of lunch every day.There are layers of lessons to this exercise, Hennebaul told ABC News. Not only are the students learning about environmental health, they are practicing the math and analytical skills they’re learning in the classroom as well.
After the students log the day's collection, they put the scraps into a special composting bin that turns the organic waste into nutrient rich grounds."We use a pitchfork and we turn them around," a fifth-grader named Chriselda told ABC News. "And once they've turned into compost, we use them for our STEAM garden to make our vegetables healthy."
The U.S. generates about 80 million tons of food waste per year, Pete Pearson, global initiative lead for the food circularity program at the World Wildlife Fund, told ABC News. Much of the waste comes from leftover meals, Person said. Students at Lovin Elementary School use red buckets to collect items to compost at the end of lunch every day.Even with all this food waste, 15 million children still live in food insecure homes. So, the Lovin Elementary School Food Waste Warriors also collect unopened leftover food and place it on a "Share Table" and in a refrigerator that’s placed in the hallway.
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