Composting is getting its spotlight in Chicago.
Following through on a recommendation made in aThanks to our sponsors:Six community gardens have been chosen for the pilot and will accept materials from a limited number of participants, including garden members and select neighbors.
Accepted items will be confined to garden trimmings, fruit and vegetable scraps, eggshells, coffee grounds and tea bags, all of which can be composted on-site using a fairly standard “Just as the gardens host a community of gardeners working together to garden, the community compost operations will host a community of composters,” Helphand said.
The amount of items composted will be measured in order to gain not only a sense of the volume being diverted from the landfill but how much compost a garden can handle, and whether the program is scalable.
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