Baltimore's Gilman School is making strides to become a greener, educationg students, faculty and staff on the benefits of sustainability.
Here's an excerpt:
"Sean Furlong, Gilman's Director of Finance and Operations has been working with a team of students, faculty, and staff to expand the school's sustainability efforts across campus. The composting is perhaps their biggest project to date. The project not only involves changing behavior, but it's great material for environmental science curriculum.
"The first piece to the education has been in the dining hall," Furlong explains. "We had a number of students and teachers involved in explaining to students (and teachers) what should go into the composting bin (vs. trash or plastic/bottle recycling containers). This took a while for the folks to get used to, but we were told we did an excellent job in making sure the correct materials got into the composting bin."
Other education efforts include periodic reports to the school on the amount of food waste they are generating; a mini compost model on display in the dining hall to show how, overtime, composting works; and student trips to the actual location where the food waste is taken."
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