The Key Biscayne Community Compost Program, run by A Zero Waste Culture and launched in 2020, collects food scraps every Saturday at the Farmers Market at Key Biscayne Community Church, 355 Glenridge Rd.<\/p>\n
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
Members collect food scraps during the week and bring them to the collection station on Saturdays.<\/p>\n
Below is the environmental impact of the Island\u2019s composting efforts:<\/p>\n
\u2022 1,649 pounds of food scraps collected this past week<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0424,642 pounds collected so far, or 212.32 tons<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0138 metric tons of greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s like:<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0350,542 miles driven<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a011.13 million smartphone charges<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a02,300 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17382,502,122382,85653,167029,167028,167030,130834,126,143800,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-423845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-a-zero-waste-culture","tag-community","tag-composter-of-the-week","tag-composting","tag-composting-program","tag-composting-update","tag-ecofriendly","tag-environmental-consciousness","tag-key-biscayne","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\/423845","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=423845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}