Unlock Composting for Rocky Hill
Update: Our campaign was successful at a 50+ household pilot was funded for the town!
Rocky Hill has a food scraps problem.
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At the moment, many of our residents have no way to dispose of food scraps. Unless you have a compost bin at home, all those unfinished meals go into our garbage system. We have to ship our wet, heavy food scraps like garbage, which means that we end up shipping it to landfills in Pennsylvania and Ohio.Towns across America struggle to address this problem.
40% of all food in the US is thrown out. 22% of our waste stream is food scraps. All this has a huge environmental and opportunity cost.Food thrown out in the garbage ends up in two places: a landfill, or increasingly, an incinerator. Burning garbage produces a significant portion of the carbon emissions that warm our planet (and give us extreme weather patterns).
Food scraps in a landfill produce methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful than carbon. Rocky Hill is only responsible for a fraction of that warming, but we need to do our part to address it.It’s tragic how we ship and or burn our food scraps when they are such a valuable resource. Food scraps can produce compost - a rich, nutrient-dense material that enriches soil at a time when our soils are rapidly degrading.
Rocky Hill lawns, gardens, and fields are missing out on nutrients from the food that we throw away.
So what can we do about this? Big picture: We need to build a culture of composting. People in Rocky Hill who want to should be able to compost at home, or use a neighborhood composting center. This campaign is about giving Rocky Hill residents another way to compost at home by enabling a residential composting service. We’re adding a tool to the composting toolbelt!
This is especially valuable for folks in our town that don’t have a yard in which to compost. Your contribution will enable Blue Earth Compost services for Rocky Hill, so that anyone who wants to sign up for the service can get access. (Right now, Blue Earth Compost doesn’t serve the town.) You’ll also fund a sweepstakes for Rocky Hill residents: 50 will receive a six-month subscription to Blue Earth Composting!
Landfill video from Tom Fisk
Music "Embrace" by ItsWatR
