Our Composting Progress

As of this fall 2011 schoolyear we have

1. Sold 12 clothes drying racks
2. Composted nearly 1,000 pounds of food waste
3. Secured a new grant from Sarah Lawrence College (SLC)
4. Created a compost club at SLC
5. Collected 70 members on email list and have 5 people actively showing up and committing to the club
6. Have complete support for composting on a small scale at SLC only waiting for pending approval this coming Wednesday
7. 2 Students doing a conference projects relating to compost this summer other than me
8. Weighed food at Bates Dining Hall and reached out to numerous people in the college
9. Created several stickers which are now up on campus promoting environmentalism and our club
10. Have given tours of our composting site to more people this year than all of last year combined
11. Am doing an independent study to focus on the best type of full-scale composting facility at SLC
12. Admissions office at SLC now mentions our club in tours of the college and has raised a lot of interest in the club
13. Now have students helping compost on campus on a pilot scale, and am beginning to show students leadership skills in making composting happen on campus.