Bokashi food waste treatment gives businesses a practical way to reduce pressure before food waste is transported. Food waste becomes expensive long before it reaches landfill, and the cost often starts in the waste holding area. Organic material sits on site, waiting to be collected, moved and disposed of. On paper, that may look like […]
Food scraps have a funny way of disappearing from our plates and reappearing in the kitchen bin. A banana peel after breakfast. Carrot tops from lunchbox prep. Coffee grounds from the first brave cup of the morning. The crusts nobody claimed. The apple core left next to the homework pile. It all feels small. Until […]
Can food waste become compost within 48 hours (or less)? Photo by Djim Loic on Unsplash There are an increasing number of table top or industrial machines which claim to turn, usually, food waste into compost within 24 to 48 hours. The claim, generally, is that Machine X will turn kitchen scraps into “compost” within 12/24/48 hours because […]
Composting is a key weapon against climate change This summer’s excessive temperatures and rampant fires in Europe and Canada have (how many reminders and examples do us humans need?) again highlighted that climate change is no longer a theory about the future. But is here. Right now. We are now living within the predicted climate […]
