Composting
Different Composting Methods
(Photo taken on tour at Veteran Compost) Reduction In Motion has over 20 years of helping companies reduce waste and make sustainability possible. We wrote this blog to help you understand different composting methods for organic waste. To answer ‘what is compostable’ or ‘what isn’t compostable’, often depends on the composting method used. Some compostable…
Read MoreGreen Holiday Meal Tips
Two great tips for a green holiday meal: Take time to plan your holiday meals to minimize food waste Support local businesses Minimize Food Waste from Holiday Meals Did you know that the average household in US spends approximately $1,500 a year on food that will be wasted and often tossed in the trash? Just…
Read MoreCompost Program 101 (Part 3): Decision Time on How You’ll Compost
Welcome back to our series of blogs on compost! In case you missed it, the first two laid out the basics of compost and shared how to get started with compost by doing an assessment. Click here: Got Food Scraps? (Part I) to see the first blog in this series (just in case you missed…
Read MoreCompost Program 101 (Part 2): Assessment
Now that we’ve got the basics of compost under our belt (click here to see the first blog in this series post in case you missed the intro to compost!), let’s move on to the first step of implementing a compost program: conducting an assessment. First, we’ll start with a waste audit, which is exactly…
Read MoreGot Food Scraps? (Part I)
Whether we like it or not, we create compostable waste every day. The luckiest among us have established composting infrastructure to divert that waste from landfills and incinerators. The rest of us are left to try and figure out how to best to dispose of our company’s food waste, yard waste, and other organic material…
Read MoreAre Food Waste Bans Giving You a Headache?
We all agree that recycling is important, right? But have you considered recycling food waste? When food is placed in a landfill, it slowly breaks down and releases methane, a greenhouse gas linked to climate change. No one likes that. Check out the newest list below of states and cities focused on diverting food waste…
Read MoreDesigning a Food Waste Collection Program
The USDA estimates that one-third of all available food supply is wasted, which accounts for 21% of all the waste in the US sent to landfills or energy-recovery incinerators according to the EPA. Unlike the Mobro incident in 1987 that kick-started recycling in the US, the coming food waste revolution looks to be driven by…
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