Students at a school in Maine separate food scraps, wheel the materials to a specially built shed, and produce up to 16 cubic yards of compost per year.
FIFTH grade class at the Cape Cod Hill School in New Sharon, Maine is composting food residuals from the school's cafeteria in a bin system. The school has 218 students in kindergarten through sixth grade and received a state grant in 1992 to build a composting shed and write a manual that could be used by other schools. Members of the Cape Cod Hill School's Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) applied for the grant and helped organize the project. Volunteers collected and weighed food from the school's cafeteria every day for two …
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