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.