You may be wondering why today’s blog features a photo of the Fremont Troll from Seattle. Here’s why: we’ve now diverted over 13,000 pounds of kitchen scraps from landfill—and that’s roughly the same weight as the Troll! 🗿🌱

This week we collected 181.6 pounds of kitchen scraps.

Good afternoon!

This has been a great week in the world of composting with the GCP feeling more motivated that ever and proud to be part of the amazing Greenwich community.  GCP joined Julie and Britta from Waste Free Greenwich at the farmers market in Old Greenwich this week.  It was so motivating to see how many Greenwich residents turned up to drop off their kitchen scraps.  Not only were residents dropping off their yard waste, there was also lots of composting chit chat - some asking questions and others sharing their success stories - it was a fun couple of hours, and, as is always the case when we meet with WFG, we left with renewed enthusiasm towards reducing landfill waste!

Today we collected a whopping 225.4 pounds of kitchen scraps!! This is an all-time record for us! We are so thrilled and grateful for this incredible milestone. Thank you all so much for making this possible — it could not have happened without each and every one of you. Your continued support and commitment mean the world to us.

Good morning everyone! Another week of terrific composting done. We collected 137 pounds of kitchen scraps this week. We noticed a lot of cardboard in this pickup which is really helpful for helping break down the kitchen scraps and maintaining the browns : green ratio.

Happy 4th of July to all! We hope you are all having a great 4th with your families and having fun. To start the holiday off right, we composted before the festivities began. We collected 101.2 pounds of kitchen scraps this week. While this may seem smaller than the increased trend we have been noticing, it was expected as half of our households were away this week. We are excited to see the numbers when everyone is back!

Today was a perfect day for composting! The weather has been quite hot so the compost has been smelling slightly stinkier than usual, but luckily not today. This week, we collected 187.4 pounds of kitchen scraps, which is especially amazing, considering a lot of our households are away. In addition, we were joined by Ryan Chass, who was a great help in picking up the kitchen scraps and adding all of them into our compost pile. Thank you!

ITS SUMMER!!!

Hello all,

Last week our carbon:nitrogen rations were a little off resulting in the pile cooling in little, but after adding a decent amount of shredded newspaper and more aerating, the pile heated up again very quickly.  These two temperatures were taken less than that 24 hours apart! The microbes are definitely very active!

Weekly Update: A New Record!