{"id":391625,"date":"2026-09-05T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:12:10","slug":"key-biscayne-composting-impact-report-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391625\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Biscayne composting impact report | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by <a href=\"https:\/\/sbksite.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Composter of week IMG_0923.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1247\" height=\"1663\" data- data-\/><\/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 1,503 pounds of food scraps collected this past week<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 416,767 pounds collected so far, or 201.67 tons<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 135.45 metric tons of greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s like:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 344,041 miles driven<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10.92 million smartphone charges<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2,257 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 and launched in 2020, has restarted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[156562,122382,156561,126,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-391625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-compost-impact-report","tag-composter-of-the-week","tag-composting-impact","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391625","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=391625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}