Why doesn't my school have an effective system for recycling and composting student lunch waste?

Why can't Marin County, California, get its act together and implement a real compost management system, as well as a recycling program at the public schools in the county? It seems like such a waste, quite literally, that most schools throw most of their waste into landfill receptacles every day. Of the 10,000 students across Marin County, waste from 10,000 lunches consumed daily, are often thrown directly into landfill receptacles.

But a lack of a 21st Century waste management system is the plight of American Schools and their surrounding municipal, county, and state governments across the United States.

Video Clips to inspire everyone to think about this idea:

A wild bird hatchery where chicks die from ingesting human solid waste products - here

Waste Management Single-Stream Recycling of West Virginia and Pennsylvania

Recology of San Francisco

TED - Charles Moore - the Great Pacific plastic trash island

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch


What I remember watching as a kid:

Keep America Beautiful (Crying Indian) Commercial


Some Modern commercials, public service reminders, and short clips:

Think Ecologically - Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

Return it! It's worth it!

What does it mean to be green? A book for 4 - 8 year olds (that adults should read as well).

The Little Earth Charter - Principle One Respect all living things

Bullying videos that have a different take than most

1. Maybe, bullying starts with the parents?... Check out this video from France. I usually do not like videos that model bad behavior for the ideas they may generate, this video takes the behaviors to such extremes. Watching adults acting like 10 year olds in front of their peers, is not as far from the truth as I thought (Google search - corporate bullying at work).

2. Watch a newscaster take on a viewer email that attacked her body type.

3. A Poem that reveals the life of a bullied teen. Live Version and Animated Version.

4. Maybe, just maybe, a bully is actually insecure and needs some time to explore his own struggle - from Key and Peele (mature language)

5. Strain. A Silent Film. 

6. Contemplate a world where people are judged by their sexual orientation from an early age. I wonder how early this starts. This is a great twist on the classic Twilight Zone, Eye of the Beholder episode from 1959.

7. Bully - animated short.