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Compost Workshop: Learn How to Compost & Reduce Food Waste

Location

Department of Public Works
Main Conference Room
147 Hampshire St.
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Neighborhood

  • City Wide

Contact

Ms. Randi Mail
rmail@cambridgema.gov
617-349-4866

Description

Save Your Banana Peels: Learn How to Compost and Reduce Food Waste

Learn the options residents have to compost food scraps, and ways to reduce food waste Cambridge's Recycling Director, Ms. Randi Mail. She will review best practices for outdoor composting, indoor composting with worms, options for drop-off and bicycle pickup.Recycling food scraps and making soil is extremely rewarding, benefits your garden and house plants and helps to curb climate change! Reducing food waste is also incredibly important considering that Americans waste more than 40% of the food we produce for consumption. That comes at an annual cost of more than $100 billion. For more info on composting, click here. 

To RSVP for this workshop email recycle@cambridgema.gov.  

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