NEMS Composting Champions

True or False? At Northeast Middle School we are starting a composting program in our cafeteria.

• True
• False

What is compost?

• I don't know
• food waste that has been broken down in to soil/fertilizer
• stuff that goes in a landfill
• stuff you can recycle like plastic or glass

Every year, each person in the US sends roughly __________ pounds of waste to the landfill that could have been composted. That's the size of a polar bear!

• 12 pounds
• 120 pounds
• 1,200 pounds
• 12,000 pounds

Where should your milk carton go?

• Landfill
• Compost

Where should your spork go?

• Landfill
• Compost

Where should your napkin go?

• Landfill
• Compost

Where should your straw go?

• Landfill
• Compost

Where should the plastic wrapper go?

• Landfill
• Compost

Where should your lunch tray go?

• Landfill
• Compost

Where should your plastic, frozen fruit cup go?

• Landfill
• Compost