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School board backs Clay County composting grant, cites cost and curriculum benefits
Summary
Board members voted to send a letter of support for Clay Countycomposting infrastructure grant; presenter said equipment would be largely grant-funded and the pilot would offer classroom ties and reduced landfill greenhouse gases.
Moorhead Area Public Schools board members on April 27 voted to send a letter of support for Clay County's application to a statewide organics management infrastructure grant administered by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Steve Lindas, the presenter for the Clay County proposal, told the board the grant would pay for heavy equipment (about $1.8 million of an approximately $2,000,000 grant award) needed to convert food scraps into usable compost and to remove wet organics from the landfill stream. "Essentially what we want to do is convert food scraps into soil so we can actually…
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