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Greening My Child’s School: A Local Story
Cafeteria waste contributes immensely to our ever-growing
landfills. Considering this, it was easy for me to implement no-waste lunches
in packing for my three school-age children, but I thought we could take it one
major step further and reduce the waste for their entire school: Edina
Highlands Elementary. After reading an article about Hennepin County initiating
an organics recycling program in their schools, I called John Jaimez at
Hennepin County for more information, and Highlands began an organics recycling
program too.
Children's "Stuff"
For eighteen years, the clothes, toys, furniture, equipment and creations of your child will be like flotsam and jetsam flowing into your home. Or perhaps flooding into your house is more accurate. The sheer volume of clothes, toys and art projects alone, to say nothing of car seats, strollers, bikes, rollerblades, skis, ice skates - well, we're talking a lot of stuff, and potentially a lot of money, manufacturing waste and eventual trash! If you have two children, that's almost twice the impact.
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