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White Castle composts food, paper waste (article)

article originally found here: http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/article/20130312/NEWS03/130319989?CSReferrer=comments Fast food chain White Castle has launched a pilot composting program at six of its Ohio restaurants. Discarded food and paper from the six locations near Columbus, Ohio, have been composted by an Ohio company since December, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The resulting product is used in landscaping on White Castle property and is available for the public to purchase. If the six-month trial is successful, White Castle will consider rolling out the program to additional restaurants, the article indicates. "[It] took a little bit of getting used to at first, getting everything in the right bucket, but now it's really smooth and it's not much extra work for the staff," Chris Shaffery, regional director, told the news agency. "We compost hamburger boxes, towels, coffee…

In Vessel Composting (video)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3zrpuvXGw This is a nice happy video I found on Youtube detailing the process of "in vessel composting". They show all the steps of the process all the way to the curing and screening. I wish there was a little more nerd talk during the screening part, or maybe a section talking about the most common contaminants they receive. Still a great video. Glad to know the facility exists and I hope more will come online soon!

Composting Method Used to Combat the Cold

Today I was wondering about how waste is collected in different parts of the country, especially during this wintry time of year. The featured article below just came out showing support for a composting program taking place in Alaska. The composting process is conducted indoors ("in vessel") due to cold outside temperatures that make it tricky to maintain an active compost pile. As a result, it allows for quite a great deal of waste to avoid the landfill year round. This is some great news for the folks in Alaska. Although it's a wild guess, maybe the colder temperatures tend to keep most people from starting their own composting efforts. If this is the case, it's even more imperative to enhance in vessel composting programs. original source: http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/article/20121217/NEWS01/121219930/composting-method-used-to-combat-the-cold Anchorage, Alaska…