Another milestone!  Today GCP hit over 8 cubic yards saved from landfill! 8.11 cubic yards to be exact.  We also had the best pick up so far this year thanks to Lisa and David Chass!  Thank you Lisa for saving all your flower scraps for us and thank you David for carrying 42lbs of flower clippings up our gigantic hill!  And as always, thank you to all our wonderful neighbors who make this project possible.

Spring is officially here!  Please let us know on the community whatsapp if you would like a bag of compost delivered this week to say thank you for all your support this year!

This week the GCP group members were honored to receive Waste Warrior Awards from Waste Free Greenwich.  We attended a lovely ceremony at Greenwich Town Hall where Britta Calkosz shared some generous words about our project, and we were each given a beautiful cutting board as the award.  In line with Waste Free Greenwich's philosophy, these cutting boards were repurposed used boards, lazor engraved at the innovation lab at Greenwich Library.  As Julie DesChamps noted, perfect for 'cutting' waste!  We weren’t the only Waste Warriors being honored—we also heard inspiring stories about Waste Free Greenwich volunteers Ben Webster and Anna Leventon; CORR (Collective Oyster Recycling and Restoration) with Tim Macklin and Todd Koehnke; Cos Cob School’s impressive efforts in waste diversion, led by Kerry Gavin; and the Or-Wraps Project, where Wen-Ting Reardon creatively repurposes hard-to-recycle materials into useful and beautiful items.  It made us so proud to be Greenwich residents with all these fantastic local projects, and we have huge admiration for Waste Free Greenwich who offer so much support to all these projects and have raised local awareness of what we can all do to reduce waste.  If you do not receive their weekly newsletter, you can sign up by emailing wastefreegreenwich@gmail.com it is a great newsletter, highly recommended by us!

Today was a spectacular day composting. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and there wasn’t a cloud in sight.   We collected and received a whopping 155.8 pounds of extra juicy kitchen scraps.  Thank you all!

With only 18 days until Spring the crew has a lot of work to do preparing compost - it is going to be a busy few weeks.  We will have some fully treated compost available at the start of spring, with much more available by May.  We will keep you posted!

Over 9,000 lbs of kitchen waste diverted from landfill everyone, amazing!!!!! Keep it up, every scrap counts, our small project is making a big difference!

Today was a great day for composting! Despite half of our households being away, we still collected 90.4 pounds of kitchen scraps. We are fast approaching 9,000 pounds diverted from landfill which is phenomenal! Thank you all! Today we aerated both of the piles to ensure that neither of them go inactive especially during the colder months. Thank you to everyone who dropped off this week, it makes pickup so much faster and easier. We are hoping that next week, as everyone will be back from vacation, we will double the amount of kitchen scraps that we pick up.

Today we collected 154 pounds of kitchen scraps. Lucas and Sebby helped out today which was very much appreciated! A record number of people dropped off which was very helpful. It makes a huge difference and now we can take on more people if anybody knows someone who would like to join! (Who lives within a two mile radius/is willing to drop off). We are still looking for any contacts in Ridgefield to set up a second project if anybody knows someone! Thank you everyone!

Our two compost piles continue to be active, still around 100 degrees.  Each week the level in the containers drops about 6", so despite the process slowing in the winter months, breakdown is still happening!

Despite the frigid temperatures and many of our households finding their kitchen scraps frozen solid this morning, our two active piles are still nice and warm, between 80 and 100 degrees.  It is not hot enough for hot composting but there is a lot of worm activity and when we turn the piles there is a lot of steam! The piles are still breaking down, although not as quickly as they do in warmer temperatures.

Today we collected 126.2 pounds of kitchen scraps. This has taken us to over 7 cubic yards of saved landfill space - an incredible achievement!

Today we collected 126.2 pounds of kitchen scraps. We were hoping to collect more but hopefully next week we will collect more! We were very surprised to see that despite the cold weather, our pile has remained active! This is great news because it means that the food scraps are still breaking down. Thank you to everybody who dropped off and left their bins out!