Ill. district’s composting efforts aim to reduce lunch waste

High school students in Danville School District No. 118 are teaching fifth-graders how to turn uneaten produce into compost that will be used to grow produce for their school lunches, according to Commercial-News.

Officials say the goal is to install compost containers in all of the district’s schools, making the entire Illinois district sustainable.

“They can throw the produce scraps from their lunch in the bin and then use the compost in the [on-campus] greenhouse to grow herbs that will end up being used in their food at lunch,” the district’s foodservice director, Greg Lazzell, told the website.

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