New Year, New Waste
Let's Connect Compost this year. Chat about benefits and barriers to composting among friends and family. Help Missoula develop composting solutions that work for you at home and around our community. We are running a 2024 campaign to connect composters in the community. Refer friends and family to curbside composting to receive a month free off your services and free start up costs for your friends. Use code CONNECT to claim rewards.
Recovering resources starts at the source. Reduce production and purchasing of excess food. Next it is important to distribute excess resources to feed hungry people. When food is beyond consumption, using scraps to make animal feed recovers value. The last step to food recovery is composting; send food back into the earth to foster new growth.
Only non-organic and non-recyclable material should enter landfills, it is the worst option of waste disposal even though it is an easy and futile option.
This year let's think of our waste differently, not as trash but as potential resources. So much of daily waste thrown in the landfill is valuable material. Reduce, Reuse. Recycle. These are the basics of sustainability, but we can take it one step further with recovery. Set aside the daunting tons of organic waste sent to the landfill everyday. Instead focus on what's in our hands each moment we go to throw something away. Ask yourself:
Where did it come from?
What value does it still have?
How can it be repurposed?
Oftentimes, the answer will be yes, your waste is valuable; it can be repurposed, it is not worthless. This is a crucial step in developing sustainable waste management habits. We have lived so long in a fast paced disposable society that it is hard to recognize the little things that hold value. Taking that minute to stop, think, and recognize the small values of everyday items will build meaningful positive outcomes.
Talking about trash, we have compostable trash bags! You can find our bio bags on our website to tidy up your compost bin.
It all starts with us individually but will grow into a community wide effort. A sustainable community is a strong community. Working together towards positive change mandates cooperation, coordination, and communication. Composting makes our community more self-reliant, builds strong nutrient rich soil for fostering new growth, protects our wild lands by slowing the growth and gas production of the landfill, and brings us together to achieve a common goal.
We can do it, but we have to do it together.
Connect Compost this year. Refer friends and family to curbside composting to receive a month free off your services and free start up costs for your friends. Use code CONNECT to claim rewards.
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