aiea high school goal: achieve zero waste in school

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.