While some people worry about bad luck on Friday the 13th, there is no such thing at GCP! Today was a beautiful day for composting, dazzling sun and a hot active pile!
🌡️ The Active Pile is Still Cooking
Despite the cold weather and lighter collections this week, our active pile is holding strong at a toasty 100°F. That means microbes are still hard at work and decomposition is moving along beautifully. The level dropped over a foot this week making space for today's scraps.
And the worms?
Happy. Very happy.
♻️ This Week’s Total
With many neighbors away, it was a lighter collection week — but we still diverted 116.6 lbs of kitchen scraps from landfill.
That’s 116.6 pounds that didn’t create methane in a landfill.
116.6 pounds that will become nutrient-rich compost instead.
116.6 pounds of impact.
🌎 Now Imagine This…
Let’s zoom out for a moment.
There are roughly 74,000 neighborhoods in the United States (based on census-designated communities and local neighborhood groupings).
If each one diverted just 116.6 lbs in a week, that would equal:
8,628,400 pounds in ONE WEEK.
That’s:
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4,314 tons of food waste
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The weight of about 700 adult elephants
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Or nearly 4 million pounds kept out of landfill methane production
All from small, local action.
That’s the power of neighborhoods.
💚 The Big Picture
So maybe Friday the 13th isn’t unlucky after all.
Not for our worms.
Not for our compost.
And definitely not for our growing community.
Small actions. Big impact.
Happy composting ♻️🌱
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