Business Composting Program Information
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Did you know you can reduce waste, help your local
environment, and possibly save money by diverting
food scraps from your kitchen, store coolers, and customer plates? Our Business Organics Program provides you with everything you need
to get started, from on-site training to free hauling
for the first month and more.
An estimated 7,000 tons ( 14 million pounds!) of food scraps have been diverted to local composting facilities through our Business & School Organics Programs! (since we started in 2004 through June, 2012) Sign up your business today. Call our Program Manager at 802.229.9383 ext.102 or scroll down to fill out our contact form. |
How the Program Works
We offer all participating businesses the following:
CVSWMD picks up food scraps from participating businesses and hauls them to several composting facilities in the region. The food scraps get recycled into a valuable soil amendment. which helps build healthy soil for growing more food.
Why Divert Food Scraps?
Many businesses find their waste costs drop when they keep food scraps out of their trash. Once you remove heavy food scraps from your waste stream, you won’t need trash picked up as often. Read the Economic Fact Sheet for more details.
Organic materials, such as food scraps and yard waste, comprise 20 - 40% of the waste Vermonters send to the landfill; up to 60% of restaurant waste is food scraps. Not only do these organic materials take up a lot of landfill space, they produce greenhouse gases as they decay. For more information, see our Environmental Fact Sheet.
Check out the ad we run featuring our participating restaurants below. New participants get featured on top.
- Free training
- Free instructional signs for your work spaces
- Free signs to market your participation to customers
- Free hauling of food scraps for the first month
- Free 48-gallon totes for food scraps
- Limited free advertising (scroll down to see an example)
CVSWMD picks up food scraps from participating businesses and hauls them to several composting facilities in the region. The food scraps get recycled into a valuable soil amendment. which helps build healthy soil for growing more food.
Why Divert Food Scraps?
Many businesses find their waste costs drop when they keep food scraps out of their trash. Once you remove heavy food scraps from your waste stream, you won’t need trash picked up as often. Read the Economic Fact Sheet for more details.
Organic materials, such as food scraps and yard waste, comprise 20 - 40% of the waste Vermonters send to the landfill; up to 60% of restaurant waste is food scraps. Not only do these organic materials take up a lot of landfill space, they produce greenhouse gases as they decay. For more information, see our Environmental Fact Sheet.
Check out the ad we run featuring our participating restaurants below. New participants get featured on top.
