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Commercial Composting: Why One Restaurant Recycles

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Saving the planet may well stem from the small act of many, than bigger actions undergone by the few. One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide program, recycling its food waste into reusable garden compost—the owner explains her reasons for doing so.

I started composting much of my food scraps last [...]

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Waste Not: From Commercial Trash to Garden Gold

Article by Lizzy Caston, from the Edible Portland Magazine
Photo by N. Scott Trimble
Bijou Café staff dump the contents of an indoor compost bin into a larger, outdoor bin to be picked up by their garbage hauler.
How Portland deals with its trash is changing — residentially and commercially. In May [...]

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