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Wednesday 11 May 2016

Recycling food scraps



Last year in our old building, Tamaki, we did food scrap recycling for the whole building. We put the scraps in our Bokashi bin. and put them in the gardens. Now we are at our new site by Sommerville  NO ONE does food scrap recycling. We have a big garden that could use lots of compost to help the plants grow. Food scraps make good compost. The food scraps we collect will mean less rubbish in the bins.
We want to make less rubbish in the bins We need more food scraps for our compost. So we made a plan.
We will know it has worked when:
  1. People use the scrap buckets
  2. Other people want to join in
  3. There is less rubbish AND we have lots of compost.

This is what we are doing.
We bought lots of red boxes and named them food scraps.
The classrooms put their food scraps in the red box.

After lunch we take clean empty boxes over and swap them for the ones with food scraps in.
We tip the scraps in the round compost bin.
We wash the boxes ready for tomorrow.
We still put a Bokashi bin at Tamaki and when it is full we swap it for an empty one and put the food scraps in our garden.
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