Ninth graders Su Hae (Jessica) Jang and Imani Hawman have organized an effort to gather food scraps from the Northwood School kitchen. The food waste will be transferred to a compost tumbler adjacent to the school greenhouse/garden.

Jang and Hawman are collaborating with the kitchen staff and Sustainability Committee advisors and plan to collect two five-gallon buckets per week to start composting in the small tumbler.

The students plan use this experience to organize a larger composting system next fall to divert more organic waste out of the garbage stream and create valuable compost for the school garden.