Archive for 'Composting'
Festival Recycling: 3 Lessons Learned
On Thursday I talked about some of the vendors I discovered at the Boston Local Food Festival. But the thing I was really taken with last year was the trash collection. This year they diverted 13.16% more waste than last year—by composting 3,600 lbs, recycling 1,820 lbs, and only throwing away 900 lbs. I even [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2011 under Composting, recycling, trash.
Tags: Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Boston Local Food Festival, Clean Vibes, Compost, festivals, Freegans will be disappointed., recycling, Save That Stuff, trash, waste stations
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A Spinning Composter
A guest post by Sharon Tomasulo, from Library Hungry. I got a new composter for my birthday! The one I got for a good price from Medford is decent, but it’s hard to stir up. Also, it’s almost full, and I don’t know what to do with my new compost as I wait for the old [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2011 under Composting.
Tags: CMP-05, composting, compster reviews, I can't decide which would be more fun--our worms or this, spinning composter
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Random Tip: Bicycle Compost
So Planet Police only picks up food waste from larger organizations who can’t compost themselves, but there are a couple good services for residential customers in the Boston area, both of which use bicycles to pick up your food waste. SoilCycle and Bootstrap Compost offer services starting at $25 and $10 per month, respectively. Has [...]
Posted: May 25th, 2011 under Composting.
Tags: bicycle, Bootstrap, Compost, food waste, SoilCycle
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Planet Police Composting
Over at Berklee.net, I’ve posted an interview with the head of Planet Police, the company that collects Berklee’s food waste for compost. Leon Tarentino had a lot of interesting stuff to say, far more than I could use there, so here’s the rest of the interview. Enjoy! How did you start this company? It branched [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2011 under Composting, recycling.
Tags: composting, food waste pick-up, planet police, who knew rotting food would be so interesting?
Comments: 2
Interview with Cambridge Recycling Director Randi Mail, Part 2
On Tuesday, I shared my conversation with Randi Mail, recycling director for the City of Cambridge, about Cambridge’s new single-stream recycling program. In the process we touched on some general waste and recycling questions that I thought I’d share here. If you have any other questions or want to attend the recycling facility tour, let [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2010 under Composting, recycling, trash.
Tags: anaerobic digestion, Cambridge recycling, Casella Recycling, curbside composting, I'm really looking forward to curbside composting—my worms can't keep up with me!, recycling
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