Today, Year 4 looked at our new system for dealing with all food waste at Wakaaranga. Thanks to a generous grant from the Mana Ora Climate Resilience Fund, we were able to purchase Hot Composters from the Carbon Cycle Company.
The great thing about our new composters is that they can convert ALL FOOD SCRAPS into compost for our gardens. This also stops our scraps going to landfill where they turn into greenhouse gases that are helping to cause climate change.
The Eco Warriors made a video to explain how the new composting system works and what we need to do:
Afterwards, we visited the new hot composters. We all had a chance to feel the heat coming off the compost. All the billions of fungus, bacteria and invertebrates in the compost cause it to heat up which in turn causes it to break down faster. We'll get compost in 3 months instead of 12 months.
We'll use the compost on our food gardens. Then we'll put the scraps in the hot composters and the whole cycle starts again. That's sustainable - no waste and no nasty gases or chemical fertilisers.
To review our new system, we created a cut-and-paste flow chart.
Lastly, we did a Kahoot to test our knowledge.
We can't wait to get started!
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