{"id":384027,"date":"2026-08-28T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384027\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:42:09","slug":"key-biscayne-composting-back-from-summer-break-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384027\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Biscayne composting back from summer break | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now back for their second week after a summer break, the Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by <a href=\"http:\/\/A%20Zero%20Waste%20Culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Zero Waste Culture<\/a> and launched in 2020, has restarted weekly Saturday collections at the Farmers Market at Key Biscayne Community Church, 355 Glenridge Rd.<\/p>\n<p>The Compost Program\u2019s 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 to the collection station on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the environmental impact of the Island\u2019s composting efforts:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1,291 pounds of food scraps collected this past week<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0415,264 pounds collected so far, or 201.67 tons<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0134.96 metric tons of greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s like:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0342,800 miles driven<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a010.88 million smartphone charges<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a02,249 trees helping clean the air for 10 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now back for their second week after a summer break, the Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17382,122382,85653,153881,85657,126,128073,152017,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-384027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-a-zero-waste-culture","tag-composter-of-the-week","tag-composting","tag-eco-friendliness","tag-environmental-sustainability","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-community-compost-program","tag-local-composting","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384027","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=384027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}