~ turn your kitchen scraps into healthier soils ~
Join our community of composters and help divert 60 tons of food waste from Tennessee landfills by 2020!
Click on your county below to get started:
- Anderson
- Bedford
- Benton
- Bledsoe
- Blount
- Bradley
- Campbell
- Cannon
- Carroll
- Carter
- Cheatham
- Chester
- Clay
- Claiborne
- Cocke
- Coffee
- Crockett
- Cumberland
- Davidson
- Decatur
- Dekalb
- Dickerson
- Dyer
- Fayette
- Fentress
- Franklin
- Gibson
- Giles
- Grainger
- Greene
- Grundy
- Hamblen
- Hamilton
- Hancock
- Hardeman
- Hardin
- Hawkins
- Haywood
- Henderson
- Henry
- Hickman
- Houston
- Humphreys
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Johnson
- Knox
- Lake
- Lauderdale
- Lawrence
- Lewis
- Lincoln
- Loudon
- McMinn
- McNairy
- Macon
- Madison
- Marion
- Marshall
- Maury
- Meigs
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Moore
- Morgan
- Obion
- Overton
- Perry
- Pickett
- Polk
- Putnam
- Rhea
- Roane
- Robertson
- Rutherford
- Scott
- Sequatchie
- Sevier
- Shelby
- Smith
- Stewart
- Sullivan
- Sumner
- Tipton
- Trousdale
- Unicoi
- Union
- Van Buren
- Warren
- Washington
- Wayne
- Weakley
- White
- Williamson
- Wilson
Lbs of food waste composted in Tennessee
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Why does composting matter? Food represents the single largest occupant in U.S. landfills, yet only 3% of it is composted. Getting food to our tables... * Eats up 10% of total U.S. energy budget * Uses 50% of U.S. land * Swallows 80% of freshwater consumed in the U.S. YET, * Up to 40% of food in the U.S. today goes uneaten * Averaging about 20 lbs wasted per person every month * Hitting an estimated $165 billion a year thrown out If that's not enough... * 1 in 8 Americans face food insecurity (according to a NRDC food waste report) Let's cut the scrap and get involved! |
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This project was funded under an organics management grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
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