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Presents…

Adam Davis . Myranda Gillow . Eva Mizer . Shelby Warmbrodt . Jussie Conner . Brenna Donovan

Chad DeVoe - Advisor

Sandra Quints . . Ashley Jackson

Project Timeline - 2007

• February-April – Bin Construction (Six Total)• 12 February – Board of Education Presentation• March-May – Order Supplies/Educate/Logistics• 11 May – COMPLETION DATE• 12 May – Grand Opening Ceremony• 14 May–12 June – Trial Period• School Year 2007-2008 – Full Implementation

Grades 6-12 School-Wide Composting Project

Attitude.

• School-Community Cohesiveness

• Environmental Stewardship

• Intellectual Humor

• School Pride

• Teamwork

• Fun

All aspects of this project will convey a sense of…

Who’s Involved?

Support

The Board of Education

Middle/High School Administration

The Community(Specifically our Anonymous Donor)

Who’s Involved?

Enforcement And Assistance

Custodians and Grounds Crew

Who’s Involved?

The Students

(Middle/High)

The Kitchen Staff

Trash Separation

Who’s Involved?

Bin Construction

Teacher Volunteers, Generation - Z, and Mr. Davis’s 8th grade Tech. Class

Who’s Involved?

Education & Assistance

Master Composters – Ithaca, NY

Who’s Involved?

Collection, Monitoring, and Turning

Generation – Z and Middle School Composting Club (3-5 Students)

Chad Neville – Middle School “Go To Guy”

The Benefits

•About one third of the space in landfills is taken up with organic waste from our yards and kitchens

•Compost helps cleanup (remediate) contaminated soil

•Compost helps prevent pollution

•Using compost can reduce the need for water, fertilizers, and pesticides. It serves as a marketable commodity and is a low-cost alternative to standard landfill cover and artificial soil amendments.

•Affects the life style decisions made by future citizens of the community

•Empower students (gives them a specific action they can take to help the earth)

•Teaches teamwork and interdisciplinary education

•Compost can be used as an alternative to mulch or other Compost can be used as an alternative to mulch or other plastic coverings-can be used for the memorial gardenplastic coverings-can be used for the memorial garden

•When in a landfill, organic matter doesn’t receive proper When in a landfill, organic matter doesn’t receive proper exposure to oxygen and produces methane, a greenhouse exposure to oxygen and produces methane, a greenhouse gas that’s more than twenty times more potent than carbon gas that’s more than twenty times more potent than carbon dioxidedioxide

•Certain composts act as barriers to prevent plant diseases Certain composts act as barriers to prevent plant diseases in the rootsin the roots

•Compost releases its nutrients slowly overtime, unlike Compost releases its nutrients slowly overtime, unlike common manurecommon manure

•Drew Davis will be building 2-4 boxes with some of his 8th grade tech students. Generation-Z and volunteer teachers will be building the remaining boxes. This will make a total of 6 boxes.

•CCE’s Master Composter Volunteer Program will be providing continuous technical assistance throughout the Groton composting program.

•The wood for the bins will be purchased locally at Baker-Miller lumber.

•Each bin will be 4 ft 3

Construction and SetupCut away layers of a bin showing the Lasagna method.

*This method is best in cutting any smells or pests that may arise during the process.

Wood chips, dried grass, sawdust, dead leaves, newspaper, and shredded paper.

Fruit and vegetable scraps, grass clippings, weeds, and bread crusts.

Contents

chopped straw

pieces of paper egg cartons

newspaper strips

small wood chips

wood shavings

Bulking Agents

dried grass

grass clippings

weeds

banana peels

bread crusts

apple cores

carrot peelings

lettuce scraps

Food for the Microbes(Browns) (Greens)

The Procedure

Organic scraps will be placed in compost buckets throughout the school. Generation - Z will target high-activity lunch zones.

The ProcedureGeneration – Z and Middle School Composting Club will rotate collection duties on M, W, F’s

Scraps will be weighed for monthly and yearly totals

Weighed scraps will be added to compost bins

Finished Compost:

1. School gardening programs run by Viola Fitzgerald and Scott Weeks.

2. Generation – Z fundraisers3. Gifts for special people4. Sold at local garden centers

Thank You!