httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNx3_qJU8G0
I posted this video recently on my other website, tylertalkstrash.com, and then I realized it had some crossover here. Schools are a blaring example of composting potential, and you teach the kids about it and hold them responsible for its success.
This came to mind as I was taking a stroll downtown earlier and walked in front of a shoe store that had its trash on the street. It didn’t take long to realize that they are yet another industry that could easily compost their waste with little to no contamination. All they have is cardboard boxes neatly flattened, shoe boxes smooshed into garbage bags along with the tissue paper you put inside and around the shoe. Check it out:
It’s hard to think of an industry that couldn’t benefit from composting in one way or another…in the shoe store’s case, their cardboard recycler doesn’t want the tissue paper anyway as it’s considered a contaminant (super low grade paper).
What’s left? Their employees appeared to be hardcore coffee drinkers, and we know that’s all compost. Remaining was plastic wrap, which can easily be separated and might even fetch you a few bucks when you have enough.