Composting
Starting in the 2025-26 school year, we compost food waste in our schools. Not only is this required by state law, but it’s also good for the environment!
- Food waste provides nutrients for soils when turned into compost.
- Composting reduces methane emissions created when organic materials decompose in a landfill.
- Food waste is heavy! Sending it to distant landfills costs money and creates unnecessary carbon emissions. Composted food waste remains in Thurston County to be used locally.
- Composting helps us model good environmental stewardship for students.
Food waste must be separated from trash and disposed of in the appropriate compost containers. Watch this informational video in which Pleasant Glade Elementary School students demonstrate how to compost and explain why it’s important!