Wayland Town Crier 12/11/11: Celebrating recycling efforts at Claypit Hill School. On Nov. 23, the Claypit Hill School gym filled up with students and parents for its Thanksgiving Assembly. The first act was devoted to celebrating the school’s efforts in composting and recycling.
Green Team members Molly Faulkner and Andrea Case, aided by a fifth-grader named Renée, performed Shel Silverstein’s poem “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out.” The point was of course that most of the “garbage” in the poem is not garbage at all, but compost and recyclables.
The students at Claypit knew this already, because they have been sorting their cafeteria output into three distinct waste streams (food scraps, recycling and trash) since the beginning of the school year.
What they were surprised to hear is that they have, to date, collected no less than one ton, or 2,000 pounds, of food scraps in the bins behind the school, where it is turning into rich compost for the school gardens.