Composting for Growth at Wilmington Hospital
It's nice to see when other hospitals in your area begin composting...I think it's finally becoming a trend and nearly every healthcare institution is aware of it. From my personal experience, implementing a compost program can be done within any hospital, and with marketing and education can become a real centerpiece example reflecting a hospital's core values. Wilmington Hospital serves more than 600 meals each day, according to Mike Wariwanchik, the hospital’s Food & Nutrition supervisor. In the process, twice weekly, Food and Nutrition staff fill eight special receptacles, each holding 96 pounds of leftover food and food byproducts: peels, rinds, coffee grounds, egg shells and table scraps,” Wariwanchik says. What makes the receptacles special is that the contents are composted (naturally recycled) to transform them into natural fertilizers for…