Keeping food
scraps out of landfills is good for the environment!
It's helping a local business, keeping food
scraps out of the landfill, and enriching the soil, naturally.
Not exact matches
John Strelitz, president
of paper broker Streco Fibres, in Virginia Beach, Va., keeps paper
out of landfills by buying, for example,
scrap magazine stock and selling it to the gift - wrap market.
Not too long ago, on a typical summer day at the downtown market, we would throw
out about 500 gallons worth
of garbage bags destined for the
landfill, loaded with food
scraps, plastic water bottles, to - go coffee cups, paper plates, soda cans, packaging and other discarded items.