Middletown, CT launched a food diversion program to help local businesses compost organic waste

Middletown, CT "Feed the Earth" compost organic waste

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The City of Middletown partnered with Hartford-based Blue Earth Compost to launch the "Feed the Earth" food diversion program. The program will provide free composting bins to Main Street business owners to help turn restaurant organic food waste into nutrient-rich compost and renewable energy. Participating businesses simply transfer waste from the kitchen with a 5-gallon bucket and empty it into a 32-gallon barrel which Blue Earth Compost picks up twice a week.

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Middletown, CT

Municipality in Connecticut

United States

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Middletown first in CT to turn restaurant food scrap into compost

The city is the first in the state to turn restaurant scraps into compostable “black...

Middletown first in CT to turn restaurant food scrap into compost - Global News & Entertainment

MIDDLETOWN — The town is the primary within the state to implement a meals diversion program that may flip restaurant scraps into compostable “black gold,” in an effort to assist clear up Connecticut’s stable waste disaster. Middletown’s new Feed the Earth campaign is a partnership with Hartford-based Blue Earth Compost, whose mannequin returns natural waste …

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