Composting efforts spread slowly but steadily

Composting efforts spread slowly but steadily

Grassroots groups and state funding have propelled the changeBy Mike LynchOn a late Friday afternoon in March about a half-dozen North Country School students are broken into groups in a rustic building with a 20-foot long by four-foot-wide rotating drum composter near the back wall. Some students hustle to chop up food scraps, scooping them up into buckets and then depositing them into the unit. A few feet away another student is gathering thum…