{"id":411429,"date":"2026-09-26T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411429\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:58:07","slug":"composting-impact-on-the-key-biscayne-community-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411429\/","title":{"rendered":"Composting impact on the Key Biscayne community | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by <a href=\"http:\/\/sbksite.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Zero Waste Culture<\/a> and launched in 2020, collects food scraps every Saturday at the Farmers Market at Key Biscayne Community Church, 355 Glenridge Rd.<\/p>\n<p>The Compost Program\u2019s mission is to divert discarded food 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 1,452 pounds of food scraps collected this past week<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0421,432 pounds collected so far, or 210.7 tons<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0136.97metric tons of greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s like:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0347,892 miles driven<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a011.04 million smartphone charges<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a02,283 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, collects food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17382,85653,126,163161,143800,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-411429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-a-zero-waste-culture","tag-composting","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-community","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\/411429","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=411429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}