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Windward Zero Waste Hui: School composting program

Bruce Asato

Sept. 22, 2019

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The Windward Zero Waste School Hui runs composting programs at five schools on the Windward side, but those programs are at risk of shutting down because of a lack of funds.
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Mindy Jaffe, head of Windward Zero Waste Hui, a school composting program, works with fourth grade students of Ka'ōhao Public Charter School in Kailua, Monday, September 16, 2019. Students use a screen and press the compost material to separate the preferred compost from the larger bits of the compost mound.
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Student Koa Medeiros places a shovelful of compost material on a screen to separate the preferred compost from the larger bits. At left is student Max Webb, 9, and at far right is Caleb Becerril, 9, waiting to sift the compost.
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Mindy Jaffe, head of Windward Zero Waste Hui, a school composting program, works with fourth grade students of Ka'ōhao Public Charter School in Kailua, Monday, September 16, 2019. Jaffe with the end product of the composting program at the school, bins of compost produced on the school grounds, to be sold to customers.
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Mindy Jaffe, head of Windward Zero Waste Hui, a school composting program, works with fourth grade students of Ka'ōhao Public Charter School in Kailua, Monday, September 16, 2019. Jaffe with the end product of the composting program at the school, bins of compost produced on the school grounds, to be sold to customers.
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Compost mounds covered with tarps await their time for harvesting while students work on one of the mounds ready for harvesting.
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Mindy Jaffe, head of Windward Zero Waste Hui, a school composting program, works with fourth grade students of Ka'ōhao Public Charter School in Kailua, Monday, September 16, 2019. Jaffe with the end product of the composting program at the school, bins of compost produced on the school grounds, to be sold to customers.
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Mindy Jaffe, head of Windward Zero Waste Hui, a school composting program, works with fourth grade students of Ka'ōhao Public Charter School in Kailua, Monday, September 16, 2019. Jaffe with the end product of the composting program at the school, bins of compost produced on the school grounds, to be sold to customers.
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During a compost harvesting at the school, fourth graders (l-r, with shovels) Koa Medeiros, 9, William Rappe, 9, and Olive Cody, 9, use their shovels to scoop the compost to be sifted through a screen, separating the compost from the larger bits in the compost mound.
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Mindy Jaffe, head of Windward Zero Waste Hui, a school composting program, works with fourth grade students of Ka'ōhao Public Charter School in Kailua, Monday, September 16, 2019. Jaffe rakes the compost mound to separate larger piece from the preferred compost.
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Students Takeru Virden, 9, and Caleb Becerril, 9, carry a bin of the harvested compost to a collection point.
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