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Cross-Fertilizing a K-12\/University Partnership to develop a Resource Recovery Program<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Food waste (FW) is a valuable resource, yet Americans discard 40 million tons in landfills annually. Anaerobic digesters easily treat FW to recover energy and produce effluent that can be used as fertilizer, as long as the food waste stream is void of contamination. Diverting FW from the solid waste stream requires a cultural change within the population so that organic waste streams of high enough quality can be generated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a partnership between Clarkson University and the public K-12 school in Canton NY (Canton Central School District), we will train more than 60 college students and teach more than 400 K-12 students the benefits of resource recovery (RR) and the need to reliably generate a \u201ccontaminant free\u201d organic feedstock for RR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

College students will develop and deliver class activities and mentor K-12 students in a newly created resource recovery program at the school. Post-consumer food waste will be collected at the school cafeteria and delivered regularly to Clarkson\u2019s small scale anaerobic digester at the nearby farm operated by Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County (CCE). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshops for teachers will generate school-wide expertise so that the program will be sustainable for years to come, and will become a model for other school districts. Clarkson students will simultaneously create and implement a sister-pilot program on the Clarkson campus to supplement the feed stream to the anaerobic food digester on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Field Trips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The project activities are rounded out by bringing K-12 students on a number of field trips to observe a resource recovery facility in action and learn about the value of<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the Classroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Students learn about food waste issues, resource recovery, and other aspects related to our food system through a variety of hands-on educational activities. We have developed and taught a number\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Food Waste Pick Up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We collect both pre-consumer (from the kitchen prep area) and post-consumer (from student lunch trays) food waste from the Canton High School and Middle School cafeterias. Students and staff scrap\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Teacher Workshops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ten teachers from 3 school districts attended a professional development workshop on March 22, 2019 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Farm in Canton. Teachers learned about issues related to solid\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Get Involved<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Looking to make a difference? Take the Food to Energy Project class, or learn about paid work opportunities at the Canton Central School District or at Clarkson University’s Anaerobic Digester.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-Fertilizing a K-12\/University Partnership to develop a Resource Recovery Program Food waste (FW) is a valuable resource, yet Americans discard 40 million tons in landfills annually. Anaerobic digesters easily treat FW to recover energy and produce effluent that can be used as fertilizer, as long as the food waste stream is void of contamination. Diverting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/no-title.php","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/author\/broulsto\/","display_name":"broulsto"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 3, 2019","modified":"Updated on September 23, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 3, 2019 3:46 pm","modified":"Updated on September 23, 2024 7:16 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.clarkson.edu\/foodwaste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}