Westborough High School To Begin Composting Student Scraps

WESTBOROUGH, MA — Westborough High School is about to become a waste-to-energy resource.

Starting Dec. 7, the town's compost provider, Black Earth Compost, will start picking up lunch scraps from the school and turning the leftovers into soil. The compost will then be available to local residents for gardens, according to the group Sustainable Westborough.

That same day, all high schoolers will get a lesson on how to correctly compost — for example, what items can and can't be thrown into the school's new compost bins.

According to town estimates, each Westborough household throws away as much as 2,300 pounds of compostable material on average each year. Black Earth Compost offers weekly pickup in Westborough of biodegradable items ranging from food scraps to cotton balls, charcoal ash and yard waste. The town also accepts biodegradable items at the transfer station with a sticker.