Grant Description

One simple action with a high impact on environmental health is large-scale composting. At the landfill, food scraps decay and create methane, but when diverted composting supports the environment.

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Description
Reunity Resources has operated a commercial composting facility since 2014. Due to the pandemic, many restaurants and schools participating in the program largely shut down. In response, we began offering a residential doorstep compost collection program. Now, as schools and restaurants reopen, we need to provide education and outreach so that they renew their participation in the program and have the training necessary to compost effectively. This outreach and education program includes: making contact with reopened restaurants to offer education and service, then scheduling and executing the training and implementation of food waste collections; scheduling training sessions with each of the 25 public schools that will reopen to students at full capacity and with cafeteria food service in late summer; designing bilingual info graphics to be used as posters, stickers on bins, and/or magnets on refrigerators; conducting a social media campaign tagging existing partners and participants that provides education on the benefits of composting and how easy it is to begin participating in the program; publicizing an existing state partnership about backyard/at-home composting and grants for participants in rural communities to have their initial home composting system paid for; and implementing a broad based media campaign promoting the expansive environmental benefits of diverting food waste through composting, whether at home, or through our residential and commercial service.

Goal
150