Dive summary:

• To celebrate Earth Day, Allied Waste Services began a program to collect food scraps at Daly City's Bayshore School District in California.
• The collected organics will be processed into organic compost at Allied’s Newby Island Resource Recovery Park in Milpitas.
• The program is expected to save the school about $2,100 a year (or 26% in garbage collection costs) and could be expanded to other schools in the near future.

From the article:

During the lunch hour, a group of students will act as Green Team Monitors to help walk their fellow students through the new disposal procedures. Allied employees will be at the school all week during the lunch hour to make sure monitors, students, teachers, and parent volunteers are properly participating in the program.

Allied has provided waste-sorting carts and bins at Bayshore Elementary along with informational posters that will help students and teachers properly dispose of food waste and other material. ...