[FRC] Composting in Schools

[Massa, Jeanmarie (DSWM)]

Hi Karen,
Miami-Dade County through the Miami-Dade County Cooperative Extension Office offers home composting workshops taught by a Master Gardner.  If a resident completes the course they are given a home composter.  I don't know if one of the teachers would want to take the course, but here is the information:
Home Composting
Home composting of yard waste and select kitchen waste takes materials that could wind up in a landfill and converts it into compost, a useful product for our South Florida gardens.
It also avoids the energy and carbon emissions associated with transportation of this material to a centralized final disposal site.
Anything that was a plant can be composted.
Miami-Dade County's Department of Solid Waste Management is hosting home composting workshops in cooperation with the Miami-Dade County Cooperative Extension<http://miami-dade.ifas.ufl.edu/>.
Also, printed below is the link to our website:


http://www.miamidade.gov/solidwaste/home-composting.asp


I hope this information helps.

Jeanmarie

Jeanmarie Manze Massa, Recycling Manager
Miami-Dade County
Solid Waste Management Department
Public Information & Outreach Division
111 NW 1st Street, 16th Floor, Miami, Florida 33128
305-375-4824 Phone  *  305-790-2295 Cell
massaj at miamidade.gov<mailto:massaj at miamidade.gov>   www.miamidade.gov/solid waste<http://www.miamidade.gov/publicworks>
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From: FRC [mailto:frc-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Moore, Karen S.
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 3:36 PM
To: frc at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: [FRC] Composting in Schools

Good Afternoon,

We received a call from a couple of teachers in Miami-Dade County looking to start a composting program at their school.  The project is just in the beginning stages and they are considering purchasing a food digester.  They wanted to know if we could recommend any resources for composting on the school level and obtaining a digester that the kids could put the food into, with a process that would be easy for them to understand.  They were also considering buying some type of a food composting kit, but thought the digester would be easier to use.

Please let me know if you have any resources or recommendations we could send these teachers.  Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,
Karen
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Karen Moore
Environmental Administrator
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Division of Waste Management
Waste Reduction & Recycling Program
Karen.S.Moore at dep.state.fl.us<mailto:Kelly.L.Bishop at dep.state.fl.us>
Office: 850.245.8864



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