Tahoma High School in Covington Launches Food Waste Recycling!

Cedar Grove is excited to partner with Tahoma High School in Covington which launched its food waste recycling program in March. The school’s Green Team and advisor, Clare Nance, along with a host of internal supporters at the school have successfully launched organics recycling in the school’s lunchroom as well as in many individual classrooms.

The Green Team produced its own video to show school-wide to launch the program and it is a great example of how the best education for successful school food waste programs is really student to student. The students have done an excellent job of educating each other about what is compostable and what’s not and encouraging their peers to sort their waste.

Johnson’s Home and Garden (Do It) Center, a local business in Maple Valley, generously donated the kitchen-sized compost pails for the school to use in individual classrooms to collect food waste for teachers who requested them.

The school is off and running and Nance estimates that the school has already reduced its garbage by half, thereby reducing cost to the school and diverting a great deal of waste from the landfill.

Way to go, Tahoma Bears!!!