{"id":16549,"date":"2018-03-06T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/ilsr-launches-composting-demonstration-site-in-maryland-high-school\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:51:36","slug":"high-school-site-2018","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/high-school-site-2018","title":{"rendered":"ILSR Launches Composting Demonstration Site in Maryland High School"},"template":"","class_list":["post-16549","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","authors-brenda-platt"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":4829,"background_color":"","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":false,"impact_areas":false,"abstract":"

In the wake of ILSR-assisted bills passed in Maryland to enable community composting, Montgomery Blair High School is hosting an ILSR-sponsored demonstration site on their campus to show how community composting can work at a small-scale.… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[601]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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ILSR is collaborating with AP Environmental Science teacher, Elizabeth Levien at Montgomery Blair High School<\/a> (MBHS) to facilitate a student-led composting demonstration site. MBHS is the largest and most diverse high school in the state of Maryland. The project is part of ILSR\u2019s work to support a distributed composting and food waste recovery infrastructure in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n

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A photo from an Eagle Scout service project building the 3-bin system for the MBHS demonstration site.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2016, ILSR helped pass Bill 28-16, \u201cStrategic Plan to Advance Composting, Compost Use, and Food Waste Diversion in Montgomery County,\u201d<\/a> which requires the county to develop a diverse and distributed plan that considers food rescue, backyard composting, community scale composting, on-site institutional and commercial composting, on-farm composting, and local use of compost. In 2017, ILSR released our new Jerarqu\u00eda para reducir el desperdicio de alimentos y hacer crecer la comunidad<\/a> that highlights the importance of community scale composting sites. The site at MBHS will showcase a composting program run by students in sync with its school garden. The intent is for the program to become a model for other schools and other community scale sites in the County.<\/p>\n

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A question from the training ILSR co-director Brenda Platt held at MBHS in advance of the demonstration site.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The MBHS composting system is a 3-bin model based on the Urban Farm Plans Compost Knox design<\/a>. Eagle Scout Justin Davis of Maryland Troop 1441<\/a> built the system as his Eagle Scout project and donated all materials and labor. The Montgomery County Sierra Club<\/a> is supporting the student training program provided by ILSR.<\/p>\n

This month ILSR\u2019s Brenda Platt started training AP Environmental Science class students. Check out her online Kahoot! Composting Quiz<\/a>. Students are learning the basics of composting and will design the program and how to document its impact (via videos and data collection).<\/p>\n

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A photo from the training ILSR co-director Brenda Platt held at MBHS in advance of the demonstration site.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To follow this project or learn more, contact Brenda at bplatt@ilsr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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