In celebration of Earth Day this year, Waikiki School students were treated to a special waste-free lunch. Each student was given a cloth napkin (donated by Doubletree hotels) and a metal reusable fork. Students were served lunch on a compostable tray (someday we will have actual plates) and all food waste was treated with bokashi and eventually buried in the school gardens. The lunch trays were soaked, torn into pieces and are currently breaking down in the school's compost piles.
The event was initiated by the school's lunchtime Earth Warriors club. The club collected and monitored waste from lunch and were shocked by what they saw.
In addition, students engaged in fun activities including an exercise station, story time, napkin and herb tying, writing messages on styrofoam trays and building a house of one day's worth of lunch waste.
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