Composting Food Waste and Recycling in the Classroom

The 7th grade students at Monte Vista Middle School gathered in small groups to identify different problems on campus. The main problems the students identified: The school throws away 2-thirty gallon trash cans of unsold food every day. Two to Three pounds of paper per classroom are tossed out each day. Every baseball season, trash increases on campus. The students then proposed the collection of the waste on campus, develop different ways to recycle the collected waste, and distribute the recycled products throughout the community. The students display and inform the school and public about their lessons in pamphlets, posters, and journals.