The Citizens Climate Corps
presents

School Composting Seminar
Wilkins School Community Center
7604 Charleston Ave
Swissvale, PA 15218
6:45pm - 7:15pm - registration, refreshments and networking
7:15pm - 8:45pm - program 

Registration is free!

Bring a reuseable beverage container and you may WIN A HOME COMPOSTER or a WORM COMPOSTER!

At this seminar, learn:

• How to work with your school district to begin a composting program;
• Why composting is great for the environment;
• Various methods of composting, including information about our region’s only professional food waste composter;
• How the CCC helped Quaker Valley School District initiate their composting program.

Background:
In the Winter of 2009, members of the Composting Team at the Citizens Climate Corps approached Quaker Valley School District about the possibility of starting a composting program in the school district.

Click here to read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about how the CCC helped Quaker Valley get started.

Composting Fact: Every ton of food waste diverted from the landfill, saves 6 tons of carbon dioxide (equivalent) emissions, mostly through the avoidance of methane formation.

The US sent 25 million tons of food waste to landfills in 2005. Composting this mass would be the equivalent of removing 7.8 million passenger cars from the road. 

Visit the Citizens Climate Corps website at www.citizensclimatecorps.org.

Comments (0)