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Budding food scrap pickup services across the US want your coffee grounds and eggshells
More than 70 Detroit homes and businesses now use weekly pickups that turn food scraps into compost and help cut landfill methane.
- Every Monday, Scrap Soils founder Ricky Blanding drives his Ford Ranger across Detroit collecting food scraps from homes and restaurants, diverting waste from landfills for residents unable to compost at home.
- Food waste in Michigan landfills generates significant methane, prompting Blanding, a 34-year-old native Detroiter, to co-launch Scrap Soils in 2020 to address this statewide problem.
- Home pickups cost $15 per month, while businesses pay $60; at The Grand Porter restaurant, executive chef Lou Hammer noted, "It doesn't take any extra effort" to participate.
- Emily Cassidy, research associate at Project Drawdown, stated composting reduces methane emissions and "can also improve local food production," offering dual environmental benefits for climate mitigation and urban agriculture.
- A 2023 BioCycle report identified 400 municipally supported collection programs nationwide, while Detroit pursues a three-year plan to divert 15% of waste from landfills toward its 100% emission reduction goal by 2050.
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Budding food scrap pickup services across the US want your coffee grounds and eggshells
Composting leftover coffee grounds, eggshells and carrot tops is a way to reduce the amount of food waste that goes into landfills, where it produces the potent greenhouse gas methane.
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