aiea high school goal: achieve zero waste in school
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Aiea High Food to Soil Action Plan 1. Separate food, liquids, and paper trays at meal times. 2. Transport all collected material to the composting area behind D-1 3. Processing teams(5-8) people will add collected materials to existing composting bed and/or build new onesTRANSCRIPT
Aiea High School
Goal: Achieve Zero Waste in School
Aiea High Food to Soil Action Plan
• 1. Separate food, liquids, and paper trays at meal times.
• 2. Transport all collected material to the composting area behind D-1
• 3. Processing teams(5-8) people will add collected materials to existing composting bed and/or build new ones
Aiea High Food to Soil Action Plan
• 4. Add water daily to the composting beds to ensure optimal moisture levels (50-60%)
• 5. Record compost beds’ temperatures daily• 6. Compost beds may be harvested after they
have maintained sterilization temperaturesconsecutively for 3 days and an equalization period of seven days
Integrated Resource Center
Inputs: Things that are currently thrown away1.Food scraps2.Paper products3.Cardboard4.Old clothes5.Milk, juices, and other liquids
Integrated Resource Center
Outputs:1. Composting worms2. Black solider flies for fish food3. Living compostPotential Outputs:1.Eggs2.Biochar3.Syngas
Composting Our Food Waste Over 2 tons of food waste was recycled back into our compost
Our Recycling process
All class from grades K-5 came out to help recycle food waste and paper.
Paper Recycling Drive
About 800 pounds of paper got recycled into our compost.
Building a Compost
Data
Weeks
total amount of Food/Milk waste lbs comments
Paper Waste lbs
1 1322 210
2 800 153
3 712 143
4 753 139
5 781 150
4368
795
Meeting with Teachers and Staff
Jeremai Cann from Green House Hawaii speaks to teachers about plan.