Kai Into Compost

by Andrew Barrow (Subscribe to Andrew Barrow's posts)
Posted Jan 15th 2006 3:29PM
Filed under: Trends, New Zealand

The city council in Wellington, New Zealand is embracing green issues with the start of a new scheme entitled Kai into Compost.

Now I am waiting to hear that this is a widespread practice throughout all forward thinking cities but Wellington is trailing the scheme to collect kitchen waste from food outlets and turn it into compost.

A truck collects kitchen waste from 50 hotels, supermarkets, restaurants and other food serving establishments and dumps it in a municipal compost plant.17% of waste that ends up in landfall is food waste which breaks down into harmful leachates and methane this can only be an environmental sound policy. They hope to extend the collection to household food waste shortly.

Tags: food and drink, FoodAndDrink, kitchen waste, KitchenWaste, new zealand, NewZealand, recycling, wellington

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1-15-2006 @ 6:58PM

Nicole Fitzhugh said...

The city of Oakland, CA (part of Alameda County) has a home compost program that they instituted this year. While I don't actually know if they pick up restaurant food waste, they provided each household (including apartments) with a small green compost bin and a large garbage can size food/garden waste bin. The large green bin is picked up weekly along with the paper recycling. The county composts it for us. here's a link to the residential page: http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp?page=528

1-16-2006 @ 10:07AM

Tracey said...

The city of Toronto has a similar program to the Oakland one. See:

http://www.toronto.ca/greenbin/

1-16-2006 @ 12:34PM

Marc said...

This is a great idea. A lot of resources go into food production, so it makes sense to try to feed the nutrients back into farms.

California has a law that requires cities to significantly reduce the amount of material sent to landfills, and this is a big stimulus for creative thinking about waste. San Francisco, California also has some kind of collection service for vegetable and fruit wastes, but I think it is limited to commercial establishments. The SF Chronicle had a good summary of the program a little while ago (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/10/23/MN84007.DTL).

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