Moscow Food Co-op Invites Public to Sustainability Celebration
Name:
Moscow Food Co-op Invites Public to Sustainability Celebration
Date:
November 3, 2016
Time:
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Event Description:
The Moscow Food Co-op will host a Sustainability Celebration from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 3 to roll out the new customer composting program and a naming contest for a new composter.
Starting November 3, customers can expect to see a composting option available in the deli area and in convenient locations throughout the store as part of the new part of the Waste Audit Reduction Plan, or WARP. The Co-op's Sustainability Committee will be available with information on WARP and answer questions.
“Audit results for April showed we had around 605 pounds of compostable material in the garbage, which made up 38.56 percent of the total waste we were sending to the landfill,” said Misty Amarena, Co-op Education & Outreach Coordinator. “Our goal is to reduce the size of our dumpster from diverting more waste to composting.”
The public is also invited to submit names suggestions from November 1-8. Voting will begin November 10. The winner of the naming contest will receive a counter-top composter, a beautiful composting poster, and a Co-op gift card.
The new composter, purchased at a deep discount from the Main Street Market in Spokane, was installed September 28 and will start turning the Co-op's biodegradable waste into garden-ready compost in November.
The Co-op’s first Earth Tub composter, named “Eartha,” was a demonstration project funded by a grant for $15,000 from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Eartha was purchased and installed in 2007 through a partnership between the Moscow Food Co-op, the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI), and Moscow Recycling. Eartha has diverted more than 20 tons of compostable material from the local landfill each year for the past 9 years.
Starting November 3, customers can expect to see a composting option available in the deli area and in convenient locations throughout the store as part of the new part of the Waste Audit Reduction Plan, or WARP. The Co-op's Sustainability Committee will be available with information on WARP and answer questions.
“Audit results for April showed we had around 605 pounds of compostable material in the garbage, which made up 38.56 percent of the total waste we were sending to the landfill,” said Misty Amarena, Co-op Education & Outreach Coordinator. “Our goal is to reduce the size of our dumpster from diverting more waste to composting.”
The public is also invited to submit names suggestions from November 1-8. Voting will begin November 10. The winner of the naming contest will receive a counter-top composter, a beautiful composting poster, and a Co-op gift card.
The new composter, purchased at a deep discount from the Main Street Market in Spokane, was installed September 28 and will start turning the Co-op's biodegradable waste into garden-ready compost in November.
The Co-op’s first Earth Tub composter, named “Eartha,” was a demonstration project funded by a grant for $15,000 from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Eartha was purchased and installed in 2007 through a partnership between the Moscow Food Co-op, the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (PCEI), and Moscow Recycling. Eartha has diverted more than 20 tons of compostable material from the local landfill each year for the past 9 years.
