Kent City Schools

Student Council observed a waste audit and learned about recycling and composting, while brainstorming ideas for reducing waste at school.They also helped promote a Zero Waste Lunch Day Competition by making posters and creating school wide announcements.
Zero Waste Lunch Day was a success. SEE staff weighed each lunch period's waste to determine which period reduced the most when compared to the prior days waste. The students reduced their overall lunch waste by 30%! Thats incredible. Free recess time for the lunch period that reduced the most!
Franklin is also using standardized recycling signage to increase recycling rates at their school.

SEE has presented our Composting with Decomposers Lesson and additional lessons on vermicomposting to a number of classrooms. Students love the live decomposers we bring into their classrooms.
After a successful ZWLD Holden continues to compost their food scraps from the lunchroom. Holden is planning on using the compost this spring in their school vegetable gardens.
They have joined in the campaign to standardize their recycling bin signage to increase recycling rates.

Walls Elementary

SEE has presented our Composting with Decomposers Lesson and additional lessons on vermicomposting to a number of classrooms. Kids love to observe and hold the millipedes we teach about.
Holden is actively composting their food scraps from the lunchroom. Holden is planning on using the compost this spring in their school vegetable gardens.
They have joined in the campaign to standardize their recycling bin signage to increase recycling rates.

We are working with the Garden Club to promote and increase rates of food scrap diversion. One classroom is taking on the responsibility of transporting food scraps to the compost bins after each lunch. Both groups of students will be working closely with SEE to design, implement, and manage future composting efforts and the expansion of recycling efforts at Stanton. We have gotten multiple indoor and outdoor recycling receptacles that have already diverted mass amounts of recyclables from the landfills.
They too have implemented the standardized recycling signs and are working on other ways to increase recycling rates.
The images below represent the hard work and creativity of the Stanton Garden Club. Their eye catching compost station has increased visability and awareness in the school and is easier to use and maintain than previous methods.

Davey Elementary

We conducted our first waste audit at Davey and gave a presentation of our findings at Davey's Earth Day assembly. The 4th grade Recyle Team performed a recycling rap and the school choir sang Earth freindly songs to remind us all to recycle.
Davey is planning on increasing their recycling from just paper to include plastic, aluminum, tin and glass this spring. They will be using the standardized recycling signage as well.

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