The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by A Zero Waste Culture, was launched in 2020 to divert food scraps and other organics from landfills, reduce methane emissions and create nutrient-rich soil.<\/p>\n
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
Below is the environmental impact of the Island\u2019s composting efforts. These figures include compost materials collected from members through home pick-ups, as well as from our participating schools and businesses.<\/p>\n
\u2022 1,063 pounds of food scraps collected this past week<\/p>\n
\u2022 409,978 pounds collected so far, or 205 tons<\/p>\n
\u2022 133.24 metric tons of greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere<\/p>\n
That\u2019s like:<\/p>\n
\u2022 338,437 miles driven<\/p>\n
\u2022 10.74 million smartphone charges<\/p>\n
\u2022 2,221 trees helping clean the air for 10 years<\/p>\n
Note: The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program will be taking a 2-week summer break and will resume regular Farmers Market drop-offs on Saturday, Aug. 8. They will still be doing businesses and home pick-ups for those members who request it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by A Zero Waste Culture, was launched in 2020 to divert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17382,85653,3242,126,128073,143800,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-351628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-a-zero-waste-culture","tag-composting","tag-farmers-market","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-community-compost-program","tag-key-biscayne-composting","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351628","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=351628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}