The school’s green team is continuing to look for better ways to help the environment around campus. Having already formed a new approach to improve recycling around school, the green team is now setting their sights on composting, something that has never happened on campus before.

“We are trying to care for our common home better,” Sustainability manager Mariette Baxendale said. “That is one of our apostolic preferences, to care for creation and this is one of the little ways we can achieve it.”

Beginning with the kitchen, yellow bins can already be seen near the dumpsters outside of the cafeteria. The idea is to start composting where it can be most effective and most useful. The team’s plan is to make the composting bins more widespread after the construction of the middle school is complete. “The kitchen is going to start the composting with all the food waste that happens there,” Baxendale said. “So we are just easing into it, but students should know that this is what is coming.”

This is not a brand new idea, in fact the Green Team has been suggesting composting for a few years now. But became the sustainability manager. This idea was not something that could be completed in just a few weeks but instead it needed to be taught over time. Baxendale and the rest of the Green Team had to help staff and students understand the importance of this brand new and upcoming project.

“In a way it is a form of business,” Baxendale said. “There are different technicalities that are required.”
For the Green Team, the new and improved recycling system was just a start to better help the environment and composting is something they want to check off of their list.

“We need to keep reducing our waste,” Baxendale said. “And this is a way to continue to do it.”