Every day, some fifth-graders at Western Connecticut Academy for International Studies, a magnet school in Danbury, push a barrel full of food scraps from the lunch room to a compost pile, where it rots into dirt for the school garden.
“If we protect the environment, the Earth will be a better place,” 10-year-old Gabby Lillo said as she pushed the barrel. “Trees produce oxygen, and if you waste too much paper, it’s not good, right?”
