Evan Mallett, co-owner and head chef at the Black Trumpet restaurant in Portsmouth, N.H. recently told NPR that he’s long been wanting to compost food scraps, but that there hasn’t been a way. Until now. Rian Bedard, a former San Francisco resident familiar with recycling, moved to the area recently and heard about restaurants struggles with recycling food. Last year, he and a friend started Eco-Movement. They are now contracting with restaurants and taking their waste to facilities, which are breaking down the scraps and selling them to local farmers. Talk about keeping it local! They’re currently working with about 30 area restaurants, and expect that number to grow. So do we!

Listen to the whole NPR story here.

If you’re interested in learning more about food waste recycling, check out our award-winning program know as the FRED Project. The program helped keep 15,000 tons waste out of landfills in 2009. This amount is expected to increase to 20,000 tons this year. The collected food waste is mixed with yard waste to make our Nature Wise compost.

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