{"id":344325,"date":"2026-07-18T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344325\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:06:09","slug":"key-biscayne-composting-weekly-update-key-biscayne-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344325\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Biscayne composting weekly update | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by A Zero Waste Culture, was launched in 2020. Its mission is to divert food scraps and other organics from landfill, reduce methane emissions and create nutrient-rich soil.<\/p>\n<p>Members collect food scraps during the week and bring them on Saturdays to the Farmers Market at Key Biscayne Community Church, 355 Glenridge Rd.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"bud-potts\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"772\" height=\"880\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Bud ready to empty his composting bucket.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the environmental impact of the Island\u2019s composting efforts:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1,844 pounds of food scraps collected this past week<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 408,915 pounds collected so far, or 203.16 tons<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 132.90 metric tons of greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s like:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 337,559 miles driven<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10.72 million smartphone charges<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2,215 trees helping clean the air for 10 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by A Zero Waste Culture, was launched in 2020. Its mission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17382,85653,130834,45284,85656,126,128073,14320,123,125,124,141158],"class_list":["post-344325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-a-zero-waste-culture","tag-composting","tag-environmental-consciousness","tag-environmental-impact","tag-food-scraps","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-community-compost-program","tag-landfills","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nutrient-rich-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}