STUDENTS PUSH FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Compost Culture and SPHS ASB’s Environmental Sustainability Representative released a video on Wednesday, Nov. 15 to educate the student body on the use of a student-run system of compost bins.

A collaboration between Compost Culture President and senior Claire Wang, ASB Environmental Sustainability (EV) Representative senior Kiana Dettman, and Compost Culture Education and Outreach Director senior Alicia Wilgoren resulted in the creation of the Environmental Sustainability Plan. The video was produced by ASB Videographer, senior Eric Cuellar.

Compost Culture is a returning club on campus that focuses on improving and spreading awareness about composting and environmentally sustainable practices through SPHS and community activities. The club has worked on setting up a compost bin network for students to utilize, which the environmentally sustainability video went over the use of.

“We’re trying to focus on getting composting started at SPHS, and also just having fun activities to get people more excited about sustainability,” Wang said.

Filled by Dettman, the position of EV Representative entails a close cooperation with ASB and administration. Dettman will also work with other environmentally focused organizations and clubs on campus such as Compost Culture.

“My goals and plans for this year [are] to set a ground for the next people who are going to be in my position,” Dettman said. “Although the process is a little slow, I’m hopeful

FOOD ELITISM that I can start creating real change on campus and create a core environmentally conscious student body.”

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Wilgoren also contributed to the plan in the role of Compost Culture education and outreach director.

The video discusses general information on composting, proper use of student-run compost bins on campus, and the parts of food waste that can be disposed of. It also shows the locations of the bins in which food scraps can be placed. Compostable food scraps include many of the food items that are in lunch, with the exclusion of dairy and meat which cannot be composted. Compost bins were placed around campus, and further plans include planting native, environmentally friendly plants, as well as the placing of a compost pile.

Students were told to place food scraps in the white bins around campus, located outside the counseling center and the student store. Food scraps will then be taken from those bins to a black bin also near the student center to be composted.

“We’re hoping to get students more aware about composting [because] I feel like a lot of students don’t actually know what it is. Unless you take APES, you don’t know much about environmental science as a whole,” Wang said.

The club also plans to put informational flyers in the aquaponics area where the addition of a compost pile will be taking place to further its goal of educating students on disposing of food waste sustainably and composting properly.

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