For more Stories, Food News, and Cooking Fresh videos, visit: cookingupastory.com Saving the planet may well stem from the small act of many, than bigger actions undergone by the few. One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide program, recycling its food waste into reusable garden compost—the owner explains why. To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to cookingupastory.com
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thanks to all the comments for the great information… and to cookingupastory for posting about composting!
Seattle has composting pickup for everyone
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I think what you are doing is GREAT. I wish everyone would get involed. More cities should offer picking up compost from restaurants.
I think that a couple of the most powerful green businesses have started with compost– particularly TerraCycle and Growing Power. Seems to me that compost might create a strategic advantage for companies that are forward-thinking enough to collect it. It is basically a pile of free nutrients available at potentially every restaurant and home! Free!!
nice work!
Awesome!! Not pure organic of course, but better than miles ahead of most!!!
Not “pure” organic but practical
Take it home and reheat it for another meal
Feed the container to the worm bin
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Very cool-commercial composting. Do all the restaurants in Portland do this…if not they should. At America’s Third Party, we would love to see this nationwide at all restaurants and grocery stores. It would be a great way to rebuild our soil naturally!
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damn, that’s awesome! i just hope more people start doing stuff like this. not just at restaurants, but starting right at home
Here, Here! Don’t spoil the soil !!!
That is fantastic.I have never been to a restaurant that did not give me too much food.My grandparents generation did not have the luxury of throwing away anything and we have lost sight of that.Sustainability starts at home and work.Don’t spoil the soil.
That’s awesome, B. You’re doing you’re part too! I may do something like that myself this fall… I just added 4 growing beds to my yard. Not growing as much as you, though!
Outstanding video! I have two large compost heaps, and last year I collected 80 bags of leaves from neighbors without having to rake any leaves in my own yard
Now the neighbors’ composted leaves are being used in my garden to keep the moisture in. Great job!
B
I think they sell it to local farmers or something. I know they only sell it in large quantities, like in truck-loads.
That is great! Do you know what they do with the compost? I’m glad to hear, it is recycled.
Right you are =)
This is cool. In my neighborhood, we have a yard waste can in which we put our kitchen compost (we don’t have room in our yard for a compost pile of our own). Everything from those cans goes to a composting place that also uses solid wastes from the water treatment plant. Yay for Sonoma County!
Thank you for your response. I’ll check it out.
Good question, thrivesurvive, and good observation. My guess is since this goes to a commercial large-scale composting site, it is set up differently than for those of us who do it in our backyard. There is a link to ‘what we recycle’ on the website where the composting is done: cedar-grove. com
i wasn’t aware you could compost cooked food. I am a raw vegan so I compost all of my raw produce clippings and my son’s egg shells and tea bags, but I thought putting cooked food in would just smell and not really give anything good to the soil. Was I wrong? It looked like some cooked food went in.
Composting is good not just for the environment and your garden… but your soul