Reducing Waste at Churchill Road Elementary School McLean School Sets Recycling Reusing Upcycling Example
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MCLEAN, Va. (WUSA) - Trash has a new meaning at Churchill Road Elementary School. Some of it means money. Some of it means food for the hungry. And some of it means a bumper crop of vegetables this spring.
The school produces 300 pounds of trash everyday, but only throws out 30 pounds. The rest of the 270 pounds of waste is recycled, turned into compost, or upcycled, meaning it's used again as it is.
"Nothing is disposable. Everything has a use everything has a value and you just don't throw it away because you think its trash," says Debra Maes, the mother who started the program last school year.