Mills High School Composting

All kids should be required to visit a landfill as an educational necessity. One large landfill, the GROWS Landfill, is “part of Waste Management Inc.’s 6,000-acre garbage treatment complex” (Rogers 187). 6,000 acres is roughly the size of 5,000 full football fields, which is enormous when you think about the vast size of this landfill and its trash. Schools should be required by law to make at

Recycling helps improve the enviorment we live in because, many times I see people liter and throw things that can be recycled on the ground.Such as water bottles, soda cans , paper, and plastic. As stated in the flyer "The new plan calls for every resident to have three trashcans: a green one for compost such as food waste, a blue one for recyclable paper and plastice, and a black one for landfill." This example shows if every resident had those three trashcans there should'nt be a reason

I believe that this problem can be solved because they have been starting to involve students in recycling in the lunchroom and around their school. In General I believe that people will start to see that we need to do more recycling when all of our backyards become landfills.

To begin, one reason why we should conserve is because almost everywhere in Sioux City has trash somewhere. We could work together and make a program that will help clean up Sioux City. This makes us only a couple steps away from reaching our goals. Not only would it clean Sioux City but also it would teach parents/students the reason why it is important to recycle/conserve. I know that as of right now we have bins everywhere over Sioux City. However, I am noticing that many people do not use these recycling

In the chapter of “Will’s Compost” from The Good Food Revolution by Will Allen discusses about a bad side and a good side of urban agriculture. Urban agriculture is booming in United States and there are a lot of non-profit organizations involve to create a strong urban agriculture progress. Allen also mentions that most of people living in urban areas are highly integrated with food insecurity and also most of the farmers had sold their land to the developers. From my reading, I started to have a thought about the benefits of urban agriculture. Does urban agriculture offers any other benefits other than what Allen has mentioned and through out its progress, is there any challenges faced by the farmers?

Pollution is an issue that could potentially cause damage and recycling conveys an important role. An issue we currently phase is trash segregation, students aren’t recycling or separating trash as they should. As mentioned earlier, mindset is just as important as action - they have careless, ignorant mentalities. What my project proposes, are two main part the action and the mentality transformation. The action idea is to develop as community service recicle trashcans with that from the outside look the same as what its entering in them, an example could be a trash can full that physically look like a plastic bottle, so students only troth there there plastic

To began, composting would not only reduce the amount of food in landfills, it would also reduce methane gas. Methane in landfills is produced because of lack of oxygen that reaches the decomposing waste. But when composting is done correctly, methane production is much smaller. In order to correctly compost, food scraps must be turned on a semi-regular basis as well as be lightly watered and the food waste (an organic material) must be mixed with a carbon-based material (paper or wood chips) in order for it to

Many people go through their day not even thinking about recycling and what it can do for our environment. We, the school, could absolutely benefit from a recycling program. So many people think that recycling is a waste of time and how the energy it takes to recycle is equal to the amount it takes to simply throw your trash away. They don’t actually think about the positive effects it could have to the school. This is why putting a recycling program in Mount Juliet High School can not only help our environment as a whole, but can also help us see the reality of what recycling can do.

Project Purpose: because earth matters, the St Petersburg Compost Project is dedicated to advancing the art, science, and application of composting. There has been a tremendous growth in compost use projects around Florida. St Petersburg has also seen a growth in tourism and with that brings an increase in waste to the area. In thinking about the current problem of getting rid of the trash created by tourism, one of the aims of this project to bring some insight into this is look at a long term approach to help recycle this waste; and also to a historical perspective about the inherent problems with trash. By reviewing how past residents have gotten rid of trash

In his new position, Maple introduced his new computerized Charts of the Future. For the first time, precinct commanders were held accountable for crimes in their area (Dussault, 1999). And for the first time that anyone could remember, crime in New York City began to decline.

College campuses across the nation have taken action to participate in the Reduce, Recycle and Reuse initiative to help make their campus a better and more environmentally safe. The program encourages recycling in communities, schools and work place. Through this proposal I plan to implement the program “Let’s Go Green” at Savannah State University. This program would challenge the faculty, students and the university itself to implement eco-friendly activities into day to day operations or everyday lives.

What happens to garbage once it leaves your house? It is either burned, buried, or recycled. However, the method that is leaving the greatest impact on nature is the burying of trash in landfills. Turns out, 55 percent of all trash ends up getting piled into landfills and left there. In 2006, Americans generated 251 million tons of garbage; 35 percent of that garbage came from schools and other commercial locations.Luckily, there is an easy way for schools to reduce their carbon footprint: composting. Schools should require uneaten food to be composted because it reduces the amount of trash in landfills, greenhouse gases, and the use of chemical fertilizers. In the paragraphs to follow I will explain to you the benefits of schools requiring uneaten food to be composted.

But what if your finished compost is infested with sow or pill bugs and you want to use it where seedlings are growing? Do you have to start all over again? No. Spread the compost in a thin layer on a tarp in direct sunlight and leave it there to dry. The bugs will bail out quickly.

recycling campaign. The only way to do that is to help make recycling appeal to more of the vast student population that currently attends our University. How might this be done? The University already places a recycling bin in every dorm room around the campus; anything more would exceed the current funding for the recycling project. Perhaps the institution of a recycling center at the Russell House could cause the impulse to become a habit. But, that would take too much money--with the salaries of workers and the annexing of what would amount to a new wing of the building--to consider for too long. Another solution could be to have the students elect a "recycling committee" to evaluate the problem and decide on the appropriate solution. However, I feel that with the current lull in our recycling campaign, even that would be ineffective. As an altrenative to these two solutions I propose that we, as students and faculty united, institute a plan that is so simple it is already in place in many of the high schools around the state. I propose a system of rewards.

Benefits of composting include enriching soil, cleaning up contaminated soil, preventing pollution and economic benefits as well. Compost helps soil retains moisture. Fertile soil has greater moisture retention, which means less water would be used in a garden. Compost also decreases plant diseases and pests.