Project Spotlight: "Waste Busters" School Composting
- Ginny Johnson
- Sep 11
- 1 min read
Waste Busters is a Boxerwood-facilitated student-run school composting program. During the 2024-2025 school year, five local elementary schools kept 14,430 pounds of food waste out of the Rockbridge County landfill and instead turned that trash into treasure, creating healthy compost soil to be used in school gardening and planting projects.
This work is funded by a grant from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) via the County of Rockbridge, as well as the COREworks Fund.
Boxerwood has been invited to speak on national and regional podcasts to showcase the successes of our in-school composting model. Hear more about the program from Boxerwood Sustainability Coordinator, Ginny Johnson, on the K-12 Food Rescue podcast HERE or the Shenandoah Valley Ever Green podcast HERE.
