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Big Box Waste and What We Can Do About It

Big Box Waste and What We Can Do About It

The other evening, I tweeted about H&M and Wal-Mart destroying usable garments before trashing them, presumably so folks wouldn’t dumpster dive for the free clothes. A friend responded that she had heard about a big food chain that pours bleach on perfectly edible baked goods that they’re tossing into the dumpster at the end [...]

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Phish Festival 8: Reducing the Environmental Impact of a Rock Concert

Phish Festival 8: Reducing the Environmental Impact of a Rock Concert

In a recent conversation I had at the 3-day Phish Festival 8 with Matt Beck, Touring Director for Phish’s charitable organization, The WaterWheel Foundation, he said something that struck me as incredibly honest and from the heart: “There’s nothing about a rock and roll concert that is sustainable when you really get down to the [...]

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Food Waste To Fertilizer: Converted Organics

Food Waste To Fertilizer: Converted Organics

This Boston based company creates “biostimulant” fertilizers. Using food waste from produce handlers, food processors, supermarkets, farmers’ markets, restaurants, hospitals, and airlines and using their proprietary technology the waste food is broken down by bacteria much like in waste water treatment facilities. The fermentation of the food waste/bacteria mixture is aided with heat and oxygen, [...]

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Green Cone- Food Waste Digester

Green Cone- Food Waste Digester

Upgrade: $140 Compost your food waste in the Green Cone. By using thermal and aerobic decomposition aids as well as microbial breakdown methods the Green Cone facilitates healthy (contained and safe, controlled odor and contact from human/animal sources) food decomposition in the yard of any home. The Green Cone reduces the volume of waste that must [...]

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