Gifts wrapped in pretty, festive wrapping paper are a highlight of the holiday season for many. Unfortunately, modern wrapping paper is often tossed into landfills – even when it could have been recycled. Each year, approximately 2.3 million pounds of wrapping paper ends up in landfills in the US alone. Luckily, you have options! First, it’s important to note that…
And, just like that, 2021 is almost over! To celebrate the holiday season this year, our team at Compost Crew will be giving back to our community here in the DMV. For each new customer who signs up in December, we will make a donation to a local charity working to fight food insecurity. These organizations help fight food waste…
Compost Crew’s community programs offer discounted rates for residents in a designated area. Today’s spotlight focuses on Lisa White, who has been a Compost Crew customer since October of this year. Lisa’s efforts to spread the word about composting around the neighborhood of Forest Estates in DC demonstrate how one person can scale their impact in helping to reduce food…
Thanksgiving is a holiday focused on appreciating everything you have — both in a tangible and intangible sense. The act of being thankful for our food and other possessions can help contribute to minimizing waste. Studies have shown that food waste increases more than 25% during the time period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, making Thanksgiving a great time to focus…
At Compost Crew, we are proud to work with businesses and individuals that prioritize living sustainably. In the United States, restaurants produce 22 to 33 billion pounds of food waste annually. For this reason, restaurants that abide by zero waste principles can help lead the way as we work to fight food waste both locally and globally. In order to…
Now that it’s almost Halloween, our Compost Crew team is gearing up for a few weeks of heavy compost buckets full of pumpkin scraps! If you’re planning on carving a pumpkin or making a fresh pumpkin pie this season, don’t let the pumpkin go to waste when you’re done with it. In the United States alone, more than one billion…
By: Kristie Blumer, Organic Solutions Sr. Manager It’s undeniable: the use of kitchen caddies and kitchen caddy liners has helped so many families give food scrap recycling a try for the first time. For that reason alone, they definitely deserve a place in the community composting sphere. The real question, however, is whether or not liners really make a substantial…
By: Ben Parry, CEO Food waste collection is not an easy business, and it’s even tougher amidst a pandemic, tight labor market, and a shaky supply chain. The economic disruptions during the past couple years, from COVID to the Suez Canal debacle, ripple through businesses in ways you may not expect. Certainly COVID has impacted our business in a number…
Edited by: Sarah Cedro, Residential Composting Analyst Compost Crew’s community programs offer discounted rates when groups of residents within a designated area sign up for our service. In today’s spotlight we sat down with Shoshana Sommer, an Eckington resident. Since Shoshana became a community champion in March, she’s helped to get many of her neighbors composting, which has meant lower…
By: Thomas Fazio, Organics Solutions Manager If you’re composting with Compost Crew, you know your food scraps are being collected and transformed into nutrient-rich soil amendment. But where does that process take place? In years past, Compost Crew brought 100% of our residential customers’ food scraps to commercial facilities in the DMV. Many of our routes continue to go to…