At last a story of genuine progress toward sustainability..not just being 'less bad' , but putting into practice the ultimate goal of sustainability - to mimic natural cycles by using waste to re-create resources.....
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| The Budden boys (L-R: Jochem, Sidd, Xander, Billy and Antoine) with their first home-made compost. |
The Grade 12 Budden group (named after generous project sponsors and UWC parents, the Budden Family) have been turning vegetable scraps from Sodexho into compost, the nutrient-rich soil enhancer that is perfect for feeding plants on campus. With the help of Head gardener Andy Tan and a Grade 9 Service group, the boys have been converting as much as 50 kilos of food waste a day into valuable fertiliser and mulch. The first batch of the compost was recently delivered to the Rainforest Nursery GC where it has been used in place of expensive commercially-produced products. And the trees that like compost best? You might have guessed - the fruit trees such as Mangoes, Longans and Mangosteens that we have in the nursery.....which will of course eventually produce fruit whose scraps can be composted to provide fertiliser for fruit trees which will......you get the idea. We save money and resources and the boys get a good work-out and a real sense of achievement in helping the College achieve its mission. So all you Geographers, ESS students, Economists and DT kids looking for an example of a project that demonstrates Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability (The Triple bottom line), look no further than a corner of the Dover Campus. Well done fellas!
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| Getting down and dirty to produce Garden Gold! |
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