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Composting & Food

California Integrated Waste Management Board Closing the Loop curricula
This curriculum is designed to introduce K-3 and 4-6 grade students to waste issues. It covers vermicomposting, red worms and their effect on soil, and using compost.

Composting in Schools
This Cornell University website offers teacher resources, information about composting indoors and out, and a variety of other information.

The Edible Schoolyard
This website, created by Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkley, California, offers information about school gardening and rethinking school lunches.

Environmental Protection Agency Municipal Solid Waste
This website contains information on municipal solid waste (MSW), including facts, information about reducing, reusing and recycling, and state data about MSW. Click here to view a 1999 document that provides MSW facts and figures, including charts of types of wastes generated and recovered. More than 40 subjects related to MSW management are also included. In 2005, the EPA published a curriculum guide titled, Quest for Less: Activities and Resources for Teaching K-8.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources
A variety of environmental information may be found at the Iowa DNR website. Check out the Waste Management and Education pages for issues directly related to organics and composting.

Iowa Recycling Association
Find facts about composting in the 4Rs newsletter archives.

Master Composter
Want to learn about composting? This site is loaded with information.

Redefining Progress
This is a link to a lesson called "Food and You," which compares and contrasts oranges, orange juice and orange candy, helping students understand that simple food choices (such as oranges) may leave less of a footprint on the earth than processed food choices.

Sustainable Table
This website introduces concepts of sustainability, and addresses organic foods, gardens in schoolyards, how to get sustainable foods into school cafeterias and a host of other food-related issues. There is also a teacher resource section.

Website mission: Provide formal and nonformal educators with resources, lessons plans, and a forum for information exchange to facilitate education about waste in K-12 classrooms. Webmaster: Susan Salterberg, Center for Energy and Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293; salterberg@uni.edu Last Updated: January 5, 2005; Copyright 2005 University of Northern Iowa. All Rights Reserved. http://www.uni.edu/ceee/wastereduction

Thanks to the Iowa Waste Reduction Center at the University of Northern Iowa and especially to their director, John Konefes, and to their webmaster, Jason Ebensberger, for assistance with this website. This website was prepared with the support of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Contract Number 04-G550-24. However, any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of IDNR. Funding support was also provided by the Resource Enhancement and Protection Conservation Education Program (REAP CEP): Invest in Iowa , our outdoors, our heritage, our people. REAP is supported by the state of Iowa, providing funding to public and private partners for natural and cultural resource projects, including water quality, wildlife habitat, soil conservation, parks, trails, historic preservation and more.