Composting food waste in secondary school 11.26.15 Composting food waste on-site at schools doesn’t just benefit the environment by diverting food waste from landfills, it also provides an invaluable learning education opportunity for students. Wah Yan College in Hong Kong, with the support from the Environmental Protection Department, purchased Oklin’s food waste composter. Mike Lai, a teacher at Wah Yan College says the most important thing in promoting environmental protection is to raise public awareness towards the issue. “We are willing to work harder to raise our students’ concern towards environmental issues. We want to pursue the message that recycling not only applies to papers, plastics, or aluminium cans, but also food waste, and that ‘rubbish’ can be turned into useful materia

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