{"id":374660,"date":"2026-08-18T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:51:36","slug":"city-and-usf-launch-composting-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374660\/","title":{"rendered":"City and USF launch composting initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, 2026 &#8211; The City of St. Petersburg and the University of South Florida have installed an industrial-sized composter at USF&#8217;s St. Petersburg campus &#8220;to process food waste and produce nutrient-rich compost for the community,&#8221; according to a prepared statement. The initiative will &#8220;start as a sustainability project to reduce food waste from the campus\u2019 dining facility in the first year.&#8221; Over time, USF and the City expect to expand the effort into &#8220;a sustainable business that collects and processes waste from local partners.&#8221; For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburg.usf.edu\/news\/2026\/composting-initiative-launches-to-reduce-food-waste-and-support-urban-agriculture-in-st-petersburg.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 18, 2026 &#8211; The City of St. Petersburg and the University of South Florida have installed an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-374660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374660","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=374660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}