Bin promoters move leaves from curb to backyard

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Millcreek Township, PN, has sold over 3,000 backyard composting bins to its residents. By using the bins, it is estimated that the amount of leaves going to landfill has been reduced by some 300 t.

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Multicounty cooperation: backyard bin promotion brings in the buyers

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Intra-State Recycling Corp, through the leadership of compost instructor Kathy Powell, launched a 5-county, compost making/selling project in Wisconsin. Powell encouraged residents of Portage County who attended her composting seminars to make compost in their own backyards. Five neighboring counties commenced advertising on the products in March 1998 and by the end of April, order reservations in excess of available stock were already being received. Refuse agencies in Adams, Marathon and Waupaca counties handled the orders and deliveries.

Wisconsin, Home-based businesses, Home based businesses, Community relations

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From ice ream to nuts in food residuals composting

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Intervale Compost in Burlington, VT, began receiving food residuals in Aug 1993 and is now a major compost producer using large quantities of food processing residuals. It charges a tip fee of $25/ton for food residuals. Since 1995, it has been processing almost 1 million gal a year of Ben & Jerry's ice cream residuals, with the liquid ice cream being blended with a mixture of bedded horse manure, leaves and sawdust. It started bagging in 1996, and in 1998 it produced 15,000 30-lb bags of compost.

Management, Compost plants, Intervale Compost

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