Evanston/Skokie
School District 65
Lunchroom Composting and Recycling in Our Schools
We are proud to be composting and recycling in ALL our D65 school lunchrooms for the 25-26 School Year!
Celebrating our positive impact from lunchroom composting and recycling in our schools in 24-25 school year! Together, we composted over 246,150 lbs of waste and 368,252 trays with 6,388 students participating at 17 schools. We avoided 88 metric tons of carbon emissions by composting instead of landfilling our waste, that's equal to 1,455 tree seedlings growing for 10 years!
All D65 Schools Participating in 25-26 School Year: Bessie Rhodes, Chute, Dawes, Dewey, JEH Early Childhood, Haven, King Arts, Kingsley, Lincoln, Lincolnwood, Nichols, Oakton, Orrington, Park, Walker, Washington, and Willard
Thank you to our lunchroom supervisors, custodians, nutrition services, teachers, school leaders, staff and our D65 climate action teams, who collectively make this a daily experience for our D65 students. Together, we’re doing our part to create a healthy planet!
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In 24-25 School Year and 22-23 School Year, we achieved our goal for all our D65 schools to participate in lunchroom composting and recycling.
Why are we composting and recycling? We're doing our part to create a healthy planet!
- Composting will transform our food waste like orange peels into healthy soil & nutrients to grow our next delicious crop of fruits and vegetables
- Recycling materials like milk cartons will turn them into new paper or cardboard
- All of this will help us reduce waste going to landfill which reduces the carbon emissions of our school creating a healthier planet
2024-25 School Year Positive Impact
