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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 businesses, making composting accessible for those unable to manage it at home.
- Food waste in Michigan landfills generates significant methane emissions, prompting Blanding, a 34-year-old native Detroiter, to launch Scrap Soils in 2020 to address this statewide problem.
- Residential pickups start at $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, said composting reduces methane emissions and "can also improve local food production," returning nutrients to soil while mitigating climate change.
- A 2023 BioCycle report identified 400 municipally supported food waste collection programs nationwide, as 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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