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Environmental Protection is a Habit at Newton| Make Compost to Change our Life

The regulations on the classification and management of urban household waste in Suzhou will be formally implemented on June 1,2020! We have shared methods of waste sorting in detail in Newton public accounts since April. For the past week, we have K2 children back at school and we have been carrying out waste sorting with them.

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Food waste accounts for more than 50% of household waste, which is the primary source of household waste. Is there a good way to deal with food waste? On May 21, 2020, we once again invited Mr. Will, a teacher from Biolan horticultural technology to give Newton teachers compost training and practice. After the training teachers had a better understand of collection, proper ratios and principles of various composting materials, therefore make it possible for teachers to guide the children well on how to compost.

Mr. will from Biolan Horticulture Technology trains Newton teachers every semester on how to compost

What's your first reaction to the word "compost"?

It might be: what is compost? Why make compost? What are the benefits of compost?

Here's the answer.

Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer

Compost is simply a way to turn all kinds of organic waste into organic fertilizer. This imitates the way of nature returning everything to itself.

Biolan organic compost bins from Finland have been introduced into Newton campuses since 2011, and the practice of composting food waste in the kindergarten has been carrying out since then.

The key of composting is to provide a suitable living environment for microorganisms, which can be achieved by a compost bin.

Why Make Compost

From the perspective of environmental protection, human beings, who produce tens of thousands of garbage in daily lives, bring great pressure on the environment and nature. Understanding how to make and use compost is in the public’s interest, as the problem of waste disposal climbs toward a crisis level. Compost is a sustainable way of living. It can make full use of food waste, organic waste, old soil and so on. It does not produce any waste, but produces high-quality fertilizer, which can be called "soil fragrance".

Compost is one of nature’s best clean mulches and soil amendments. The organic matter provided in compost provides food for microorganisms, which keeps the soil in a healthy, balanced condition. Therefore, compost creates a healthy environment for plants and makes plant grow stronger. Another good thing about compost is that it's good for the whole planet. Fruit and vegetable residues, eggshells, coffee grounds, weeds, leaves will finally become useful things and it can help to avoid the transportation of garbage.

Compost is the action of showing love, loving yourself, loving parents, and loving the earth.

Compost can make all the useful things returned to the soil and recycle the natural things into the ecological system again.
The Newton children witnessed the magic of nature. Putting things like fruit scraps, eggshells, the tomato heads, and the leaves into the compost bin, and giving the proper proportion, temperature, microorganism and time, it finally becomes organic soil.

The benefits of compost

The benefits of compost to nature is obvious. Garbage or Resources? Making this distinction is important. Recycling and Reusing some kind of kitchen waste and organic waste, compost can realize the value of resources and benefit to nature.
The benefits of involving children to practice composting are more than that.
In the process of collecting all kinds of food waste, the Newton children have understood the difference of all kinds of waste. Which food waste can be put into the compost bin? Which can't? It is a deeper understanding of waste classification. Witnessing the process of the natural cycle, the children are eager to explore and thus gain the ability to understand and respect all nature.

The organic soil produced by the compost bin will be used by the children in the vegetable garden. The natural and pollution-free organic soil will help the vegetables absorb the most valuable nutrition. The children can finally have the organic vegetables they grow. This experience will make the children get closer to nature and understand it better.
Returning to the theme of environmental protection, compost is not the only focus. We should first reduce making garbage, and also do the waste sorting. If we try to finish our meals every time and reduce the waste as much as possible, the kitchen waste will also be reduced. When some kitchen waste cannot be avoided, we can resort to the ultimate method - composting.

At Newton, environmental protection is a habit to make compost change our lives.

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