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Million tons of trash a year to be buried upstate, as well as in pennsylvania, virginia, ohio, and south carolina. at a price tag of $300 million. real value of recycling is short-term. instead of $90 a ton. it could cost us $70 a ton. by 2017, mayor bloomberg wants to double the city s recycling and composting rate to 30%. the effects would be significant. considering that every new yorker sends 700 pounds of trash to landfills every year. waste is simply an indication of inefficiency. it s inefficient for society and environmentally. according to the epa, americans produce 250 million tons of garbage in 2010. and recycled or composted about a third of it. 85 million tons. another 29 million tons of trash ....
Western north carolina, on the olympic bomber, eric robert rudolph. one of the things that came back to me as i thought about those days and i watched these people in action, they worked hard all week. they are exhausted. the people of boston are composted. and tonight, they show the world and set an example what have america s all about in the face of tential tragedies. i also think back and can t help but to wonder and think about the fact we are sitting here on top of april 19, april 20, these are significant days to anyone who has worked terrorism. this is the anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing in april of 1995. it is also the day april 20, where the unabomber mailed his last package. i started thinking about the families and the victims of these crimes and the people who were so courageous and set such examples for us. and how our lives became intertwined and how years later, we still talk and we are still friends and have affected each other by the way we were brought ....
this is a european restaurant that owe fuocuses on seasonal cuisine, fresh food, ingredient drink. i m the executive chef for echo restaurant. we usually serve 350 to 400 meals. local radishes, just got in yesterday. just the preparation process of making food for 350 people a day creates a lot of food waste, a lot of scrap. every restaurant in the country produces a lot of food waste. when you serve 350 people you can produce up to 1,000 pounds of food. we do 1,000 pounds of food waste a month. that s a lot of waste. we wanted to reduce our footprint and tried to make sure there s no waste going out of the kitchen. 100% of the food waste goes to compost. none of that goes to the landfill now. right now imskinning flounder, portioning them into sizes for later on tonight. everything can be composted. ....
When you serve 350 people, you can produce up to 1,000 bits of food. we do about 1,000 pounds of food waste a month. that s a lot of waste. we really wanted to reduce our footprint and try to make sure there was no waste going out of our kitchen. 100% of our food waste goes to compost. none of that goes to landfall right now. right now, i am skinning flounder and portioning them into sizes for later on tonight. everything can be composted. it makes all of our proteins and vegetable scraps and fish, chicken, beef, lamb, lettuce. it all goes in the compost. bruss brussels sproutses, carrots, onion skins, herb skins. if you can eat it, we will compost it. we have fish and pasta with vegetables and it all goes to compost. it is picked up and taken to a ....
3% of that is composted. we re seeing a surge, especially in the hospitality industry, to reuse and recycle your leftovers. as a result, people are getting hired. take a look. greenco is changing what goes into a landfill and creating jobs one truck load at a time. they shouldn t really go to a landfill. there are vital ingredients in making a high quality compost. food scraps from luxury hotels and old buffet meals are revolutionizing the way gardening is done. when tim lost his job, he founded greenco with his wife. the company produces compost by mixing the food scraps with woodchips. what used to be in dumpsters and landfills is now being used in nutrient rich mulch. today s food waste is tomorrow s fertilizer. the process is just mother nature doing her job. there is all these microbes that ....