Let’s connect these 2 facts together…
- Methane has 72 times the global warming power of carbon – per NOAA and the recent article in Grid magazine by Tanya Seaman
- Backyard or onsite composting offers the highest environmental benefit among organics management strategies because of the decrease or elimination of transportation impacts. – per the COOL2012 website
Food scraps dumped into land fills slowly decompose while producing a lot of methane which is 72 times more damaging to our Earth climate than carbon. And, in my opinion, it is considerably easier to reduce the amount of food scrap discarded into landfills. Philly Compost proposes to help us systematically compost our food scraps.
The goal of the two founders of Philly Compost: Lee Meinicke & Meenal Raval is to get more Philadelphians to compost. Their objectives are:
- Document existing composting initiatives in Philly, and
- Develop a local support system for backyard composting by connecting various civic groups
Eventually, they would like to provide a pedal-powered neighborhood-based service that offers:
- curbside pickup service (much like the Pedal Co-op)
- backyard compost harvesting service, and
- offer finished screened compost as a product.
To that end, they have created a website (www.phillycompost.com) and a public Google map of compost sites in Philly.
For each site:
- They have noted “ask before visiting” and specified how the site host would like to be contacted: phone, email or door knocker.
- They also have been careful not to list the complete street address, to prevent dumping on unattended space.
- Meenal’s own backyard site has become a shared community compost site, with about 7 households contributing to it on a regular basis. Another local shared backyard site is on E Mt Airy Ave, in a lot behind Fred’s Mt Airy Motors, in partnership with the Weavers Way Farm.
Please review the Google map & the Philly Compost website. If you compost, please feel free to add your site to our map. If you have links or resources you’d like to share, please write to Meenal & Lee at realperson@phillycompost.com.
October 17, 2009 at 10:12 pm |
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