Category: Composting
Local Small Business Green Waste Company Turns Your Food Waste Into Compost
When I was growing up, I spent a great deal of time at my grandparents' house. They taught me the basics of gardening and caring for our small patch of the world around us, and I have tried to emulate them in my own life. However, they had one practice that I have never [...]
Cary Expands Food Waste Drop-Off Program With New Mills Park Collection Site
Composting just got more convenient for Cary citizens with the opening of a second food waste recycling drop-off site located at Mills Park, 425 Mills Park Dr. Cary is teaming up with Toward Zero Waste to help promote the drop-off by providing on-site education and leading online workshops. Citizens using the Mills Park site may [...]
Composting in your kitchen? A review of the Lomi Home Composter
Editor's Note: Photos used in this review are directly from the Lomi website, used with permission. The author was awaiting a replacement part at the time of writing, so she was unable to get photography of her exact Lomi unit. What is Lomi?Food waste in [...]
10 Ways to Reduce Food Waste at Home
Last Wednesday, Toward Zero Waste hosted a screening of Just Eat It, a documentary that follows filmmakers Grant Baldwin and Jen Rustemeyer as they try to live off nothing but food waste for six weeks. We also hosted four panelists - Rep. Zack Hawkins, Brandi Williams of Charlotte Public Service Divison, [...]
In Search Of A Zero Waste Tea
Back in March 2018, we conducted a survey through our Toward Zero Waste Facebook Groups regarding tea packaging. One of our members had begun to find tea packaging sized plastic in her finished compost and realized that some her tea packaging waste was clearly not zero waste! Remains of composted tea envelopes (bottom [...]
