Los Angeles Unified School District produces about $100,000 dollars worth of food waste everyday, which totals up to an astounding $18 million dollar loss per year. This money can be directed from the dumpsters to classrooms if proper precautions and recycling methods were taken.
At Mira Costa starting this school year, a nonprofit organization called Grades of Green has implemented a school-wide recycling program to reduce the amount of trash produced at school. In addition to a regular trash can, many blue recycling bins were placed around the school to encourage students to properly distinguish trash and recyclables.
Grades of Green hopes to create a food-composting system within the next few school years, with the goal of reducing the amount of food waste produced at our school.
For more information about LAUSD’s food waste, click here.
To find out more about Grades of Green, click here.
For more information on how MCHS started to go green, click here.
Reporter: Erica Wenger
Photographer: Aili David