Go Green Tips

 By: Christine Toorinjian

     Welcome to go green tips! This part of the blog tells you about simple and easy ways on how to well, go green! There is almost always something new to try out, so keep on visiting for more tips on how to be green.

     This month’s tip: Donate your food scraps to some of the classes who have started vermiculture. If you don’t know what that is, here’s a simple run through on how it works. Basically, it’s raising worms and using their waste to help enrich the soil for healthier plants. Anyways, some of the classes who have started this is Ms. Firestone F-205, Ms. Correia F-204, Mr. Matsaura F-207, and Mrs. Lactaoen F-104, and they’re all in F building. Just tell them that you’ve brought some food scraps from home for the new vermiculture project, but before you do, there are some requirements on what the food needs to be and their conditions:

     #1: The food cannot be meat. It has to be all natural food, found in the ground or on trees. So, basically vegetables and fruits will only be accepted to feed the worms. Why? Because when the worms eat meat products, their waste won’t be as nutrient filled and will have developed an unpleasant smell.

     #2: The food has to be cut up into small pieces, so the worms can digest it easily and quickly. This helps us out because then we will have more worm feces. Even though this may not sound so exciting to you, it is for us, because that is the exact reason why we started this vermiculture project!

     These are the only requirements for the food that you bring in and it should be easy rounding up the food. All you need to do is ask your parents every night, or during the weekends (breakfast, lunch, dinner etc.), if they have any leftover vegetable and/or fruit scraps, or maybe even old, slightly spoiled vegetables and fruits and then put it into a plastic bag for the next day (after making the preparations to it of course!) and bring it to school. This won’t only benefit us or the worms, but it will benefit you too. By bringing in your food scraps, you will be reducing the amount of items you put into your trash and this will leave more room in your trash bag for actual trash, which will also reduce the amount of trash bags you use, also reducing plastic usage (depending on what type of trash bag you use), saving you money, and by taking up less space in landfills, by using less trash bags.

     Simple right? Well that’s it for now! Come visit again for even more go green tips.