Composting is one of the best example. We can show them on the spot how plants start from a seed, germinate grow and eventually die (we eat them, we discard them, they get old, etc). What is left can be used to feed new plants. That is a way to cut costs as we do not need to buy chemicals to fertilize the soil.
We have two plastic compost bins we use to compost vegetable leftovers from the children lunches and vegetable waste from the cafeteria if any. We mix the waste with wood chips to avoid any odors.
We also just recently built a wood compost bin for yard waste (wood chips, leaves, grass clips - only if no chemicals have been used on the lawn).
I want to really thank all the ones who made this wood compost bin possible, from Hamilton County Waste Management to Susan's Natural World to the Mike Molloy family and their friend Brad Watkins. Thank for donating your time, talents and funding for this exceptional 21st must have educational tool for the kids.
And I also want to thank all the school staff that made possible our pilot project in the cafeteria, so that we can have a full speed compostable waste collection for 2010-2011 school year.
Eventually we will start running out of close by landfill space - in Italy, from where I'm from, is already happening now! -, and getting rid of waste will be more and more expensive, so we need to be proactive and learn how to reduce, recycle and reuse waste as much as we can at home, at school or at work. Wilson is at full speed in Recycling already and Composting will be the perfect puzzle piece in the big picture of "Reuse, Reduce, Recycle and Remember".
To learn more about Composting here are some great site to go:
All about Composting
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