At Greenacres food scraps are not trash!  Each day during lunch, Greenacres kids put all of their food scraps into green “compost” bins that are lined with compostable bags instead of the regular trash bins. These bags of food scraps are then picked up from Greenacres and taken to a composting facility offsite and turned into useful compost!

In addition to recycling our food scraps, all serveware used during lunch is now compostable.  These compostable items are made from renewable resources such as sugarcane leaves, corn and wheatstraw.  No more plastic! As with the food scraps, these compostable items will all be turned into compost.  These items use renewable resources, are healthier for the kids to eat off of and reduce our waste.

Each year at Greenacres, more than 10,000 lbs of food scraps and compostable items are turned into compost.  There is almost no trash during lunch anymore!

Check out these pictures of our program in action…