STANLEY SWITLIK STUDENTS TURN FOOD SCRAPS INTO NOURISHMENT FOR WORMS

STANLEY SWITLIK STUDENTS TURN FOOD SCRAPS INTO NOURISHMENT FOR WORMS

What’s the best thing to do with food waste? Feed the worms. That’s precisely what Michael Sessler’s science students at Stanley Switlik Elementary School have been doing — and the results are blooming. In October, the school launched a worm composting project to tackle food waste from the cafeteria. The goal is to reduce what ends up in the landfill and show students how waste can be recycled into something extraordinary. By January, the studen…