Composting food waste is green; not wasting food is greener
Composting food waste is fine, but not wasting the food in the first place has at least 30 times the benefit when it comes to cutting global warming emissions, a new study commissioned by Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality concludes. This week, Portland, Oregon started picking up household food waste at curbside for conversion into compost. That's... [Read more...]
The 2011 Longview Art and World Music Festival will be KC’s first ‘Zero to Landfill’ festival event
LEE’S SUMMIT, MO: As patrons visit the 2011 Longview Art & World Music Festival, they will notice right off something is missing -- trash cans. Why, you might ask? Because 100% of the food waste, trash and disposed products generated at the event will be recycled. Aluminum cans and other metal will be sold for scrap, glass will be recycled into fiberglass... [Read more...]
Did you know that Missouri Organic Recycling has a program to deal with food waste? According to a recent survey by Franklin & Associates, over 170,980 tons of food waste entered land fills in the Kansas City metropolitan area in a single year. That's a lot of potentially valuable organic material going to waste in our local landfills. Fortunately, we started... [Read more...]
