I love all of your ideas and think as a group we can make great things happen. I'd like to throw an idea out, that i believe would benefit the community and leave a lasting legacy. It would be interesting to see if we could organize a campaign to keep organic waste out of the landfill. I know that with recycling and composting i generate less than one trash bag per month. It's pretty amazing to see the difference. There are many progressive ideas for using the organic waste to generate power, fertilize, and provide high quality soils, but it could also be used by the community parks and schools. In some cities the compost is used to generate $$$
In many cases cities have cut their solid waste entering landfills by 50%. it would take a lot more research but i think we could educate people, business, restaurants around town and possible get the city to start a larger facility. We could look into grants both local and federal.
To start we would need to educate residents about the benefits, work with sponsors Government and local business to implement, and train citizens how to keep compostable material out of the land fills.
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Oh-my-gosh . . . I was just at the Gallery Stroll (incidentally, didn't see any of my Flavor there except Andrew Wood who was volunteering --by-the-way, you should see his art hanging in the Kimball) .. . okay, enough of that. Insa and Jean and Steve (From the Washington School Inn) were seriously just talking about a composting project for chefs. . . .I think you're onto something. . .we could GO BIG with this if we went to the Restaurant Board, etc. --Julie
Another great idea!
If we pursue this, I'd love for it to be countywide. We could involve all the schools and libraries. This could expand from compost to community gardens at the apartment complexes.
Once again, the possibilities are endless!
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