Commission hears waste work-group report on school compost pilot and data collection

Oct 22, 2026

The Waste Work Group reported on a planned food-waste pilot with John Dewey Academy and UW–Green Bay’s in-vessel composter, data collection plans to measure per-capita food-waste and options for scaling school and community composting programs.

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The commission received a report from the Waste Work Group outlining pilots with local schools to divert food waste and gather data on generation rates. Jeanette (Waste Work Group) said John Dewey Academy — a small, project-based charter school with about 120 students — plans to pilot collection of food-waste pails and report volumes to John Arndt at UW–Green Bay to check the university’s capacity to accept the material.

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