Composting with SCRAPS

What is composting? What are the benefits of  composing? What are the different types of composting? How to compost? And how to compost in an apartment? All of your questions will be answered in this podcast by our amazing guest speaker, Alexa Rosenstein, Director of Operations for Scraps Mile High Composting!

Scraps is a compost collection service that does weekly compost pickups for residential homes and businesses! They deliver you a pail and compostable bags, you fill the bags with your food waste, put the baggies in the pail, then once a week a Scraps compost collector comes to your house, takes the bags, and brings your food waste to an industrial compost site to be turned into compost!
URL  to Scraps: https://scrapsmilehigh.com/

Scraps' service is amazing for so many reasons; but my favorite, and the reason I started composting with them, is their ability to service our vast geographic area. As of February 2022, Scraps collects compost from residents and businesses in the Denver Metro cities  of Denver, Edgewater, Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Broomfield, Arvada, and Westminster. I really appreciate their strong efforts to service so many areas!
Use this link to see  if your city is in their service area! https://scrapsmilehigh.com/signup#servicemap
If not, not to worry because there are other compost collection services in our city!

In fact, if you live in the City of Denver and are a resident in a house or apartment with 7 units or less, you can compost with the city! Just request the City of Denver bring you a compost bin and they will take your compost to a facility every week, just like your trash and recycling!
URL to City composting https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Offices/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory/Recycle-Compost-Trash/Compost

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During the episode, Alexa dives into the scientific details of how industrial composting works. Scraps uses A1 Organics as our local industrial compost site. This turns all of our food scraps into a healthy, vibrant, amendment to add to your house plants and personal or community garden.

By taking food waste out of our trash and landfills, we are diverting 40% of waste! Food waste in the landfill doesn't break down for decades and releases toxic methane gas into the atmosphere - which significantly contributes to green house gas emissions. But when we place our food waste into a compost, it create a life providing substance! Two totally different end products from the same origination product.

Here are great resources that Alexa provided during our podcast:
Documentary "Wasted" about food waste science.
URL https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6207096/

Documentary "Kiss the Ground" about Regenerative Agriculture.
URL https://kisstheground.com/support-the-film/

Ridwell, a hard to recycle collection service.
URL https://www.ridwell.com/

Continue your listening with my Eco-Friendly Homes podcast episode, "The Ingredient Insider, Elizabeth Boulos" from Feb. 24, 2021.
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