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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Hi Karen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Home Composting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">It also avoids the energy and carbon emissions associated with transportation of this material to a centralized
final disposal site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Anything that was a plant can be composted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Miami-Dade County's Department of Solid Waste Management is hosting home composting workshops in cooperation
with the <a href="http://miami-dade.ifas.ufl.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0D6687">Miami-Dade County Cooperative Extension</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#333333">Also, printed below is the link to our website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/solidwaste/home-composting.asp">http://www.miamidade.gov/solidwaste/home-composting.asp</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">I hope this information helps. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Jeanmarie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Jeanmarie Manze Massa,</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"> Recycling Manager</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Miami-Dade County
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Solid Waste Management Department</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Public Information & Outreach Division
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">111 NW 1<sup>st</sup> Street, 16th Floor, Miami, Florida 33128</span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">305-375-4824 Phone * 305-790-2295 Cell </span><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.miamidade.gov/publicworks"><span style="color:blue">www.miamidade.gov/solid waste</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">"Delivering Excellence Every Day"</span></i><span style="color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> FRC [mailto:frc-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Moore, Karen S.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 02, 2017 3:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> frc@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [FRC] Composting in Schools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good Afternoon,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have any resources or recommendations we could send these teachers. Any help would be appreciated. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Karen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;color:#2F5597">Karen Moore<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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