Last year the world generated more than 1.3 billion tons of food waste. Tons. That’s more than 20 pounds of food per person per month that floods into landfills and emits harmful methane gasses. Some cities have gone to bat on the problem by creating civic compost programs. For example, Seattle recently passed a law mandating that all food scraps be kept out of residential garbage and offers weekly pickup of food waste bins. And in Austin, Texas, there’s a similar pilot program, but expansion to the entire urban area could take up to 10 years.
Until then, small business and private networks are popping up to fill in the gaps, including Austin’s Compost Pedallers, a startup that offers bike-powered, carbon-neutral food waste pickup. Since its founding in 2012 by Dustin Fedako, Compost Pedallers has diverted 500,000 pounds out of the waste stream a la community composting……………..
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Small networks, such as Compost Pedallers, keep collection and processing local, so organics are invested back into the community where they’re generated. “We have an ever-growing demand for the service that we just can’t meet,” Fedako says, so to help, he recently launched a fundraising campaign to purchase a new fleet of electric-assisted Trek bikes to allow Pedallers to reach a wider service area, like outlying neighborhoods and the top of steep hills…………
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