Sustainable Materials Management, Inc.

Sustainable Materials Management is the first privately owned food scrap composting facility in Westchester County, NY. For more information go to www.smmcompost.com or email us at [email protected]. #compost #sustainability #foodwaste #livingsoil #organic

Industrial agriculture is turning our farmland into dead soil at an alarming rate. The Need To GROW is a film about SOLUTIONS for healing our broken food system.... Watch the film right now for free at https://grow.foodrevolution.org/ The UN estimates we have fewer than 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth. And many people are concerned that governments and Big Ag want to control what we eat. It’s as if our human right to eat safe food is under attack by industrial agriculture, pesticide and GMO manufacturers. Agriculture is the most destructive human activity on the planet. - Rosario Dawson (From The Need To GROW movie) Industrial agriculture is first and foremost a war against the earth because it’s a war against all species. Since you’re bringing war chemicals into the production of food and all they’re doing is killing. - Vandana Shiva, PhD Something must be done. Which is why we spent the last 5 years making our film The Need To GROW. The Need to GROW is a story about real-world SOLUTIONS. Watch the movie for free at https://grow.foodrevolution.org/ Executive produced and Narrated by Rosario Dawson (Marvel’s The Defenders, The Lego Batman Movie)... The Need To GROW follows three renegade leaders as they fight to heal our broken food system and protect new technology that holds the key to feeding the planet and reversing the damage caused by industrial agriculture. An urban farmer struggles to keep his land after he pioneers a way to grow organic, nutrient-dense produce at warp speed ANYWHERE (Imagine paved parking lots sprouting acres of huge, healthy, micronutrient-rich, organic veggies) An 8-year-old girl scout challenges the ethics of a beloved organization in her quest to raise awareness and make healthy food available to everyone. And a visionary inventor builds a machine that takes waste and turns it into a natural substance that can reclaim and regenerate dead soil. (Doing in days what takes nature 400 years!) Watch the full movie for free: https://grow.foodrevolution.org/ It’s easy to feel like the problems we face on the planet are too big. That there’s nothing we can do. That it’s too late. It’s not. We just need hope. WE NEED TO KNOW THERE IS A CHOICE THAT *CAN* WORK. This film provides that hope. You’ll see real solutions to some of our biggest environmental challenges. The movie is engaging, informative and hopeful without being preachy. It will make you laugh, make you cry, give you chills, and inspire you to participate in the restoration of the Earth. And for a limited time, you can watch the entire film absolutely free: https://grow.foodrevolution.org/ If you’re interested in a healthy future for our planet, please watch the film right away. The disruptive new technology featured in the film puts the power to grow unlimited healthy food in the hands of the people. And these breakthroughs threaten the status quo of the energy, agriculture and fertilizer multinationals who want to control what we eat. Many deep-rooted corporate interest groups desperately want this technology to quietly disappear. We can’t let that happen. We WON’T let it happen. The more people aware of these solutions, the better our chances of passing on a thriving, healthy planet to our children and grandchildren. Watch the movie, learn about the solutions, spread the word and join us in making a difference: https://grow.foodrevolution.org/

While the Wheelabrator Incinerator in Westchester does not produce methane, it is one of the largest sources of GHGs and air pollution in Westchester County. Why are we still burning organics, when that 30% of our waste stream can be composted or digested!? Composting locks up the carbon from organic materials like food scraps, yard and tree debris, that would normally get released as carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned or as methane (CH4) when landfilled. ... #carbonsequestration #organicsrecycling #compost #sustainablewastemanagement https://www.wastedive.com//super-emitters-methane/570850/

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If you want a great crash course in the state of waste management and recycling in New York City, there are a series of great articles from Politico that provides great insight into the topic. While Westchester has a higher average recycling rate than NYC, neither has taken the necessary steps to properly incentivize or enforce sustainable waste management practices. Source separating all recyclables, including organics MUST BE MANDATORY. What is abundantly clear is that we n...eed to reduce green house gas emissions and the environmental impact of incineration and landfilling. Organics recycling is a relatively low cost, high return solution to this our waste and climate crisis. It is not enough to just divert and recycle organics into compost, we need to use compost in every way possible and heal our soils. Investing in our local soils is investing in the future. https://www.politico.com/states/new-york