Chip Chick
Kailua, Hawaii. This school program has got reduce, reuse, recycle on lock!
The Windward Zero Waste School Hui has been described as an “award-winning, nationally-acclaimed zero waste program,” and it’s teaching both students and faculty how to engage in environmentally-friendly practices that can make a profound collective impact.
The stats on the program’s success in 2021 include:
Over 2,000 students participating daily.
57.8 tons of waste that didn’t end up in a landfill.
A 90% reduction in school trash.
These students are composting and learning environmentally friendly ways to dispose of cardboard and paper products.
Ron Brasher, the organizer for fundraising for Oahu Resource Conservation & Development, shared that students at participating Windward Oahu schools are “working cooperatively in the pursuit of waste reduction, soil restoration, and applied environmental education.”
GoFundMe; pictured above children help out at the Windward Zero Waste School Hui
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