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Reducing Food Waste: Feed the Pigs Initiative at DS Schools

Did you know Americans waste about 33 million tons of food each year, leading to significant environmental impacts and costs? The DS Schools are taking action with a program that collects food scraps to feed pigs at a local farm, reducing waste and educating the community on sustainability. Last year's effort faced challenges, but with increased awareness through posters, announcements, and events, we aim to improve participation. By working together, we can make a difference—feed the pigs, reduce trash, and raise awareness about food waste!

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Reducing Food Waste: Feed the Pigs Initiative at DS Schools

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  1. Feed the pigs Lucy Gladstone Emmy Cunningham StephVanRiet

  2. Did you know…… • Americans waste about 33 million tons of food each year • The US spends about 1 billion dollars a year to dispose of food waste • According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food leftovers are the single-largest component of the waste stream by weight in the United States IS THERE A MORE EFFICIENT WAY?!

  3. Put your food scraps to good use! • George Stevens is hired by the Dover Board of Health to collect food waste from Dover homes and schools and brings them to a pig farm in Millis where the food scraps are fed to the pigs

  4. Benefits of the pig farmer coming to DSMS and DSHS • Trash bags are less heavy without the tonnage of the food waste • This translates into less trash pick ups that the school needs to pay for • Instead of throwing away perfectly good food, our scraps are used to feed hungry pigs! • Spreads awareness in our school and community about food waste.

  5. Last year’s attempt • Last year, the pig farmer came to the DS Regional schools to collect food waste, but the custodians stopped his daily pick-ups because students were not cooperating with the collection and just throwing their leftover food away.

  6. We can make this work - Let’s bring the pig farmer back to ds! • The biggest issue with last year’s attempt to collect food waste to feed the pigs was lack of awareness • This year, my group and I are planning on changing this, by putting up posters and making announcements in the lunchroom to let our school know what’s going on, and how they can help • By painting the pig slop buckets, increasing signage in the cafeteria and possibly creating competitions and prizes, we can feed the pigs, reduce our food waste AND have fun!!

  7. Sources • Dover Recycling Committee • http://www.npr.org/2012/09/21/161551772/the-ugly-truth-about-food-waste-in-america • http://endhunger.org/food_waste.htm

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