Using our Insinkerator Food Waste Grinder as a “Compost Companion”, take 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-by4iKsUnIE Here's a mostly excellent video... the core idea is right on: Grind up your food waste to encourage rapid decomposition. I'm a little lost on the pro- garbage disposal talk, though. I've seen only a few write-ups on this, and they've all been from Insinkerator... conflict of interest, perhaps? Convert organic materials into compost in your own yard, or flush them down the drain to combine with nasty chemicals, heavy metals, motor oil, medication, and everything else that washes into the sewers. Even with an infrastructure set up to compost sewage sludge (which isn't always the case- it's often incinerated!), the end product contains a lot of crap. Keep your organic materials at home. Anyway, the dude explains how he puts all his organic materials in his compost bin,…

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Philadelphia is Close to Mandating Composting for Restaurants

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/02/19/city-council-oks-measure-to-allow-restaurants-to-recycle-scraps-for-composting/ Although it's been known for a few weeks, I wanted to bring up what's going on here in Philadelphia. Up to now, the City had no real incentives set up for businesses to compost, nor do they provide curbside compost collection. In Philadelphia, all commercial establishments must pay a fee every year for their trash dumpster and recycling dumpster.  The recycling is cheaper than the trash dumpster. The idea is to have a composting option available, which will hopefully cut back on the amount of organics being thrown in the trash. This bill focuses on just restaurants...ideally it will expand to include coffee shops, pizza shops, and really anywhere serving food. Done right, numerous businesses should practically be able to either recycle or compost almost all of their waste.…

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