We caught word of New York Compost, a pilot project to start a "table-to-farm" compost pick-up service in NYC that would take organic matter from restaurants to farmers. Here's their Kickstarter fundraising campaign page - they need to raise $6,000 by September 1st to develop and test a cargo bike system to do the job. It's a great idea, considering that 29% of NYC's compostable waste stream - which could go back to enriching our soils - ends up instead in landfills, where it can't break down properly. This means literally landf...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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