Thanks to all of the kids that helped me and my team collect compost at our last Go Green Wednesday at Clemson Elementary. We collected more than 20 gallons of compost (uneaten lettuce, apple cores, carrots...). Instead of going to a landfill and becoming harmful to our environment, these leftovers (which may be any food and vegetable waste) will become food for worms, and eventually food for me, Sprout, as nutritious rich compost which will help me grow healthy! This in turn eventually becomes food for you in the lunchroom!
Can you kids imagine what 20 gallons is? Each of your milk jugs at home (the big ones) is a gallon. 20 of these a day means (20 x 5) 100 gallons a week, and (20 x 180) 3,600 gallons a school year. Try to picture that many gallons in your refrigerator? Impossible.
So kids instead of making garbage :( we are completing a cycle of life :) Don't you think we should do this everyday?
3 comments:
great post , Sprout. I can't believe you collected 20 gallons of compost!
Wow Sprout! Imagine the amount of compost we could collect at the school on a daily basis. The soil we could make would make the best planting material for science projects!
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