A great week!  On Tuesday Greenwich Composting Project celebrated Earth Day by going back to where the team originally met: Parkway Elementary School.  GCP had the kind invitation to present to Parkway on the topic of composting.  Maggie and Kian Madden, members of GCP and students at Parkway, helped lead the assembly - great job Maggie and Kian, you made it so much more interesting and fun!  The Parkway students already knew a lot about composting (many are already composting with GCP) and were a great audience, asking some excellent, and sometimes very challenging, questions.  Thank you so much Parkway for having us!

🌍💚 Happy Earth Day from the Greenwich Composting Project!Today we celebrate the tiny heroes—worms, microbes, and YOU—who turn scraps into soil and help our planet thrive! 🌱🍌🪱💩Let’s keep feeding the Earth, one banana peel at a time.

We made it!  The 143.9lbs we collected today took us over 10,000lbs of food scraps diverted from landfill - thank you to our amazing neighborhood, great work and now the count down begins for the next 10,000lbs.  For those of you wanting to imagine what 10,000lbs looks like - this is the equivalent of 2 shipping containers or 5 rhinos!

Greenwich Composting Project was delighted to have a table at the 2025 Rethink Waste Fair in Greenwich.  It was a great day and we had fun talking people through our composting process, offering advice to home composters and giving out apples and oranges on the condition that the cores and peels were returns to us for composting!

We met this very handsome fellow on our composting run today which was a great day for composting.  152.1lbs of kitchen scraps collected and mixed into our compost piles.  We are rapidly approaching 10,000lbs of kitchen scraps diverted from landfill!

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.