Student Composters Canvass Cross Cafeteria

Why, oh why are we requiring students to take foods they don't want and won't eat onto their trays? And then why are they just throwing out uneaten and untouched sandwiches, yogurt, fruit, etc? There should be a share pantry corner at each school's cafeteria where a fridge can store refrigerated items and a table or shelving unit can store items that don't need to be refrigerated, so students can leave whatever they don't want and take whatever they do want home with them, to feed them or others in their family after school and on weekends.I bet in a school of 1,543 students, there is somebody who would be happy to take and eat a wrapped PB&J sandwich or an unopened yogurt or an apple or banana that another student didn't want. When I was a student in the city, on welfare and food stamps, my siblings and I would have loved to be able to take extra food home to eat. I hope the NHPS starts a school wide program for food sharing, and stops requiring students to take foods they don't want, as it is an incredible waste of money and food, and starts a composting education program so students can educated each other on what can be composted and what can not be composted. And I hope the city starts a city wide composting pickup program with Peels & Wheels where they have rodent proof compost containers and regular bike or electric powered vehicle pickups and a city composting center where the compost and the oyster shells recycling collection program for creating new oyster seedlings beds can have their mutual stinky location where it's not likely to bother anyone. This would also reduce the amount the city pays for trash to be hauled away and burned or dumped elsewhere.