Recycling
Return these plastic films to grocery stores near you!
Did you know:
- The average person throws away nearly one pound of food a day https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-waste-nearly-a-pound-of-food-each-per-day-study-finds/
- * Food waste in landfills creates methane, a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
- We partner with
- A local composting facility to turn your food scraps into healthy soil.
- We are partnering with the OHSWA to broaden the impact of this energy-producing capacity in our community, while reducing unnecessary growth of local landfills.
- The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority (OHSWA) has ways to capture methane, as featured in Google’s 2017 Environmental Report.*
- In 2019, the OHSWA will begin operation of a state-of-the-art system of capturing 100% of methane from food waste and using it to produce energy (Anaerobic Metabolizing).
- When you use our services you make a direct impact on local environmental sustainability.
- *https://www.ohswa.org/news/the-authority-featured-in-2017-google-environmental-report/
“The image comes from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (www.ilsr.org), a national nonprofit organization working to strengthen local economies, and redirect waste into local recycling, composting, and reuse industries. It is reprinted here with permission.”