Food waste gets second life as compost at international school [News]

Food waste gets second life as compost at international school By Lim Jia Qi, Channel NewsAsia, 12 Oct 2016 Vegetable peels, fruit waste and coffee grounds – all this organic waste does not simply go down the garbage chute at the Dover campus of the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA). Instead, these are given a second life as compost for the school's gardens. In 2012, UWCSEA started a composting project in a bid to reduce food wastage. Getting the project underway was not easy - it involved a few high school students setting up a composting site within the school and collecting pre-cooked waste such as vegetable peels and fruit scraps from the canteen daily. Click here to read the full article Source: Channel NewsAsia