Composting
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magidTuesday I brought my compostables to Cambridge's recycle center. A woman asked if she could take my picture as I dumped the stuff from my little one-gallon bin into the large container, and told me she was the coordinator of the program. Win! I'd heard a couple of weeks ago that the program, started as a three-month pilot only, was being continued, and I was curious what the criteria for adoption were. I asked, and she told me that they wanted to make sure that people were taking advantage of it (they are: hundreds of pounds of food waste are brought in each week, 500-600 if I'm remembering correctly), and that there weren't complaints about smells or rodentia, etc (there haven't been).
She's very enthusiastic about the composting program, and hopes that it expands, with drop-off points around the city rather than just the recycle center (of course, if one has room for a compost bin, that's encouraged...). There's already a community partner: Whole Foods (the Prospect Street one) has a compost drop-off site available daily from 8 AM to 10 PM. She's encouraging people to bring their compost to the recycle center if possible, because the store is paying for the composting themselves, and she doesn't want to strain their goodwill. I was glad to hear it's available, though: the Shabbat before going to Israel, I had to throw out things I could've composted, but I wasn't going to have them sitting around for weeks until I came home. I felt rather guilty, throwing stuff out (one habit of mind that's changed rather easily :-), and now I know I could pop over to Whole Foods at the last minute if I need to. Excellent.
(Of note: the commercial composting program has been around for at least a couple of years already, and is quite successful. I know that Whole Foods is part of that; I'm not sure how that works with them paying for composting themselves.)
Bonus link: where Cambridge recyclables go, and what happens to them
She's very enthusiastic about the composting program, and hopes that it expands, with drop-off points around the city rather than just the recycle center (of course, if one has room for a compost bin, that's encouraged...). There's already a community partner: Whole Foods (the Prospect Street one) has a compost drop-off site available daily from 8 AM to 10 PM. She's encouraging people to bring their compost to the recycle center if possible, because the store is paying for the composting themselves, and she doesn't want to strain their goodwill. I was glad to hear it's available, though: the Shabbat before going to Israel, I had to throw out things I could've composted, but I wasn't going to have them sitting around for weeks until I came home. I felt rather guilty, throwing stuff out (one habit of mind that's changed rather easily :-), and now I know I could pop over to Whole Foods at the last minute if I need to. Excellent.
(Of note: the commercial composting program has been around for at least a couple of years already, and is quite successful. I know that Whole Foods is part of that; I'm not sure how that works with them paying for composting themselves.)
Bonus link: where Cambridge recyclables go, and what happens to them
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