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Comments (2)What are you planning on doing with the compost? You would have to have cooperation from the kitchen staff, gardening staff, students and the school administration. How many pounds of kitchen scraps does the kitchen generate each day? How many pounds of lawn clippings does the garden crew generate when they mow? How often do they mow? Are there deciduous trees on the school grounds? Does the garden crew rake up fallen leaves? The cost savings to the school in terms of composting organic materials, which would otherwise cost the school money to haul away as trash, that would likely be your best selling point. Recycled paper can also be composted. How many pounds of recycled paper can the students collect each week? Compost bins are sized in gallon measurements. My compost bin is a 60 gallon bin. Composted materials decompose and become smaller than they were when initially put into a compost bin. If I fill my bin to the brim tomorrow, in two weeks the quantity of material in the bin will have been reduced through decomposition by at least one-third. Maybe you can locate a commercial composting enterprise, a large scale composter, and interview someone in management to answer your questions regarding poundage and volume. Or, you could help your school to arrange a contract with a composting enterprise which might net the school some income, as well as cost savings regarding disposal of lesser volume of garbage. Garbage collection is a significant expense. Composting bins do cost money. The staff time required to compost will cost some money. I imagine students would volunteer their time. Years ago, when I worked at the University of California, Berkeley, one of the larger departments arranged for all of their paper trash to be recycled. Recycling was a new concept in those days. A recycling company picked up the the large volume of waste paper the department collected, and paid the department for that paper. The department earned nearly $10,000 income in one year from recycling their waste paper. The amount of money saved in regard to the lesser volume of garbage needing to be disposed of was not tracked. Lorna...See MorePlease Help Now!! I have a school project, need one bit of info
Comments (2)OK tachinid. i just wrote tachnid. I think that'll be fine thogh...See MorePlease help my DD with her school project
Comments (23)Done! But, somewhat along the lines Jakabedy noted, there were some questions that seemed (to me) to presuppose not-thinness so it was hard to know what to base my answers on. I am thin (BMI 18), and also a bit older (60) so I hope that doesn't mess up her responses. However, I suppose if the same survey is seen (from different experiences) to be asking from the "wrong", e.g. opposite point of view, then probably it is stroke of survey-writing genius. What's interesting (sad, really) is that whether one is thin, or not, weight is such a potent issue for girls and women. I have often wondered if part of the much-ballyhooed (and real) overweight problem we have in the US is driven by the over-arching focus on weight as a body-image/attractiveness thing, rather than mostly a calorie, activity, genetic heritage issue. I, too, would be interested in seeing the reults when they are published. L...See MoreNeed Tile Decision Help Again Please! Please Vote!
Comments (19)I'd vote for the basketweave (and not just because I used the floral on the wall in my kitchen). Mosaics generally aren't slippery - the grout lines make them grippier than a lot of large(r) format tiles. I have these crappy white 6x6's in every bathroom in this house (ugh) and you could like to kill yourself on those with wet feet. The issue with the floral is that onyx can be fragile. I got a pretty decent lot, but I also hand inspected every single sheet, removed the "uglies" and used two sheets to replace the rejected pieces. The marble also has some very distinct gray (which does not appear in your limestone) but does appear in my Corian, so I'm not bothered by it. And yes, I did use bright white grout and no, I would never use traditional white sanded grout on a bathroom floor. At a tile shop you'd likely have more choices in the white/cream family. I just think that overall the basketweave is a stronger choice for your space. If you got a very grey lot of the floral you'd be even more behind on tile - and stuck with it to boot. Lisa...See MoreUser
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