Edmund Lu’s Composting Solution
Sustainability is a wide issue and I think everyone of us should take part in it in some way. My idea here is not really anything at a large scale and only involved a bit of work daily; that’s right, I believe it is beneficial to support our environment through food scrap recycling, and thus the meaning of composting.
This project did take a little initiative to get started – mostly because it is quite unpleasant to handle food waste. The process is simple, for example, for the staffroom bin, staff members would be reminded to place any food waste they have in there – apparently not meat or citrus as these are not compostable. But anything else works for the worm farms. I then empty the bin and grab the waste to feed the worms! Sometimes there are unaware tissues or even plastic material in there which I must take out, but generally our staff members are responsible for what they put in there. I then simply put another bag on the bin again.
I think there really isn’t anything complicated here, it is just the interest to do a little for the environment and keeping it going. The worms take some time (about 2-3 weeks actually) to finish each bulk of scrap. Therefore, I also intended to do a composting drum so that all scrap comes in here and we can produce compost in much higher amounts. This certainly had been essential since the worm farms really didn’t produce enough for the garden.
I have been very glad that there have been several volunteers among staff members to take care of individual bins, this means there will be continuous waste coming in and in the future, it should be compressed every one or two months – to really get the compost in place. I believe this is not much, but it can at least make some small differences everyday in our small school environment, and hopefully more members of the community would volunteer to support our recycling solution.
- Edmund Lu
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