A Long Island town is collecting food scraps from homes and businesses to reduce the waste stream and make compost for local farms. It's seen as a win-win. GusoffTV reports.
Riverhead is collecting scraps from homes and businesses to reduce the waste stream and make compost for local farms. It's seen as a win-win, CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reported Friday.
"You don't really realize how much food you throw away until we started doing this," said Joanne Leibold."Any kind of raw vegetable, salad, tomato, strawberry, even banana peels." "I want all the food scraps and I want them put right back in the farm for our food, for our environment, for the water runoff, moisture retention, nutrients, all of it," said Mark Haubner, from Riverhead's environmental advisory committee.
"Taking 30 percent of the waste stream out of landfills, less tipping fees. It benefits everybody," said Riverhead engineer Drew Dillingham."It's being repurposed to compost and then soil. So it feels good," said Kemp.
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