Live Green and Grow - Sustainable management of organic waste and creation of a community vegetable garden

Management of organic waste is a recurring and not addressed problem in our community. Even though it is a rural area, most of the organic waste goes to the garbage bins and on to the landfills that are already full to overcapacity. Our project is focused on measuring the amount of organic waste that our neighboring households and school generate daily, build compost containers for garden waste as well as kitchen leftovers and work together with the neighbors and the municipality to develop two community vegetable gardens in the public entrance of our school in order to showcase how to use this cycle of organic materials for a sustainable growth model that is used by the community and goes back to it.

The students together with the teachers, parents and the wider community will build two types of containers, both aerobic and non-aerobic (with bokashi) ones that will collect all the organic waste that we produce. Together with recycling, this will result in a minimal waste footprint for our school and community. By developing the process and the tools to implement this, the school can develop efficient guidelines that other schools in the wider area can use for their own waste management towards a sustainable school model. At the same time, the students with the help of the parents and neighbours will start two community vegetable gardens to learn about the process of food production using sustainable methods.