hloopneg
Registered: October 2014
City/Town/Province: hammonton
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My environmental sustainability class decided to begin composting at my high school. With the leadership of our instructor a group of seven of us began the quest to find the biggest but cheapest composter we could buy with a grant our teacher had received the year before. The whole class learned the chemistry, biology, and physics of composting, which helped our small group decide on a large, black, odor-proof composter. We recently placed the composter outside and began composting in my school’s culinary class. If it continues to go well we will open composting up to the teacher’s cafeteria as well. Since we need volunteers to transport the compost from the culinary room to the composter, I got my school’s National Honor Society involved. I then created a schedule so that every week, twice a week, a National Honor Society member transports and rotates the compost in return for an hour of community service. I was the first person to place compost into our large compost bin in my school’s history, and it was such a magnificent process. When I dropped the food remains into the large bin, steam rose and my joy overflowed. The thermophilic microorganisms were at work in the composter that I had helped get up and running. It is extraordinary to see all of the remnants turning into a reusable resource, when they would had otherwise been tossed into the trash.
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