Food for thought:

At first this seems impossible, but when you think about it we bag our garbage in plastic and mix it in with other non compost materials.  When you think of it that way it makes more sense... 

• The average person throws away 0.91 pounds of food waste a day.  
• Food waste in landfills creates methane, a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. 
• When you use our services you make a direct impact on local environmental sustainability
• The average landfill operates for 30-50 years. Help us make ours last as long as it can! 

• 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.”