What: What is your solution, exactly? What is the goal of the project?
Composting is the process of taking brown and green organic waste and decomposing them naturally to make nutrient-rich soil.
The goal of this project is to change people's view on composting and affect our school's composting system by getting more people involved.
Possibly affecting Hawaii/Maui's view on composting and changing how we compost in Hawaii/Maui.
Where: Where in Hawaii would be located?
KCS, Kihei Charter School could compost and impact other schools to do it as well. Other schools already compost, we could further implement that by encouraging other schools to compost as well and reduce their food waste.
When: Timeline to achieve your goal.
Composting at the school
Having a weekly composting collection
Making multiple composting piles
Involving students
Contributing the composting pile (when we're done with it) to the school gardens
How: What is the plan to implement your solution?
For one thing, composting has already started in our school. We have a composting waste collection once a week on Tuesday with Gretchen from Grow Some Good.
Speaking with Ms.Federoff about more composting in the school, composting bins along with recycling bins.
We would have to spread the solution and introduce the system we're using to other students have it for the middle and elementary schools
Enforcing weekly composting for the school and making our own composting piles.
Cost: What will your project cost to build/create/implement? Where could the funds come from?
Right now the composting pile we're using doesn't cost any money to create. The composting pile is out in the open with a tarp that is watered often. Including the water cost and the money to buy some more tarps for more composting piles there isn't much cost. Grow-some good provided a whole lot of materials , partnerships are important . Always can work together no matter what the cost is.
CO2: How much CO2 would be sequestered or prevented?
Food waste that ends up in the landfill don't decompose properly and end up making methane which is about 28 times stronger a greenhouse gas than CO2. By composting we stop the food waste from ever actually getting to the landfill and allow it to decompose in a manner that it can actually remove Co2 from the atmosphere as soil and the plants that grow there. C02 and methane are to different things .
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Between 2020-2050 we could potentially sequester 2.14–3.13 gigatons of Co2 (equivalent)
Potential benefits and drawbacks of your solution
Benefits from composting are reducing methane from being released into the atmosphere and helping crops by creating nutrient soil that pull co2 from the environment.