Aiea High School Goal: Achieve Zero Waste in School

Aiea High Food to Soil Action Plan 1. Separate food, liquids, and paper trays at meal times. 2. Transport all collected material to the composting area behind D-1 3. Processing teams(5-8) people will add collected materials to existing composting bed and/or build new ones

Aiea High Food to Soil Action Plan 4. Add water daily to the composting beds to ensure optimal moisture levels (50-60%) 5. Record compost beds’ temperatures daily 6. Compost beds may be harvested after they have maintained sterilization temperatures consecutively for 3 days and an equalization period of seven days

Integrated Resource Center Inputs: Things that are currently thrown away 1.Food scraps 2.Paper products 3.Cardboard 4.Old clothes 5.Milk, juices, and other liquids

Integrated Resource Center Outputs: 1. Composting worms 2. Black solider flies for fish food 3. Living compost Potential Outputs: 1.Eggs 2.Biochar 3.Syngas

Composting Our Food Waste Over 2 tons of food waste was recycled back into our compost

Our Recycling process

All class from grades K-5 came out to help recycle food waste and paper.

Paper Recycling Drive About 800 pounds of paper got recycled into our compost.

Building a Compost

Data Wee ks total amount of Food/Milk waste lbscomments Paper Waste lbs

Meeting with Teachers and Staff Jeremai Cann from Green House Hawaii speaks to teachers about plan.