Come, Post Your Compost TN Environmental Council

Come, Post Your Compost!

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Through our Come, Post your Compost project, the Tennessee Environmental Council will serve as a central resource for food waste reduction across Tennessee, regardless of location, by acting as a statewide clearinghouse. We hope to engage 1,000 participants throughout all 95 counties of Tennessee to reduce, recover, and recycle. Our goal is to divert tons of food and yard waste from Tennessee landfills.

Why? 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,

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
Food represents the single largest occupant in U.S. landfills
Only 3% of it is composted

(according to a NRDC food waste report)

Let's cut the scrap and get involved!

Lbs of compost in Tennessee

This project was funded under an organics management grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

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