Partners:
- Secaucus School District
- Local Businesses
- Secaucus Community Garden
- Secaucus Prevention Coalition
- Secaucus Community Center
Community Impact:
- Secaucus’ team created a composting center and community awareness campaign to ensure the composting system is sustainable beyond the summer
- Through community and government partnerships the group was able to access and train 13 youth to use the town’s rocket composter, an industrial composting machine.
- The group collected 14 buckets of food waste, created community awareness, of community gardens and composting, by canvassing 8 city blocks, 190 homes, created posters for 7 community gardens, and one public service announcement, that was screened at various community events.
- Further, team Secaucus identified the opportunity to engage local businesses through Green Business Certifications thereby recognizing their sustainable efforts and recommitting them to environmentally friendly business practices. As a result the team approached 55 total businesses in the Town of Secaucus of which 8 were certified and committed to greening their businesses.
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