Every Tray Counts – Diverting school food scraps from the landfill

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Every Tray Counts – Diverting school food scraps from the landfill

During our essay contest awards gathering, a young girl stood in front of us while Kenn Webb, the Transylvania County Solid Waste Director, read her essay. She was a bit shy so Kenn shared her thoughts with us. She wrote of how her family use to pick up food scraps from the local schools to feed his livestock and suggested this program be brought back. What a great idea.

We are currently compiling the ideas provided through the essay contest into a poster and E-book. After that, we will go through the suggestions and research their implementation.

One of our members recently shared with me a group that works in NC schools to divert food scraps from the landfill (thank you Mark). The group is called Every Tray Counts and you can find their website here: http://www.everytraycounts.org/

It looks like they are doing wonderful things and I am excited to put similar practices into action in our community.

By Kim Coram|2019-08-19T12:18:27-04:00August 19th, 2019|Categories: Composting, Moving to Zero-waste, Use Food Scraps|

About the Author: Kim Coram

Kim Coram is retired from The Bureau of the Public Debt, US Treasury Department where she served as an IT manager in a variety of disciplines ranging from computer security to website management. She is an US Air Force veteran and was an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist. She was elected to Parkersburg, WV's city council where she served a 4-year term. Kim loved WV and decided to move after seeing the impact fracking has had and continues to have on this once paradise. She is now retired and lives in Cedar Mountain, NC where she enjoys clean drinking water, riding bikes with her husband, John, and taking her grandchildren on grand adventures in her "backyard".