School Composting Programs and Making Little Changes to Save Money

Does anyone out there have experience with school composting programs? The amount of solid waste produced by our lunchroom is astounding, and if we could do something with the solid food waste instead of tossing it in the dumpster I’ve got to believe that we’d save a couple thousand dollars every year.

I’m thinking that we could do something with our electric bill, too. It annoys me when I walk in on a Sunday evening to do lesson plans and can see computers that have been left on since 3:00 on Friday afternoon with nothing going on. It wouldn’t be a problem if they were set to go to sleep, but they’re usually sitting there with the monitor on and the desktop showing. Some have the screen saver going at least, but it’s still a change that we could make that might save a few dollars.

And sure, in the big scheme of things it’s the heating, cooling, and lighting that make the most impact on the power bill, but I can get to those later.

Is your school making any facilities changes to save money? What do you see in your building that could be done?