This week we collected 137.3 lbs of food scraps AND passed a huge milestone: GCP has now diverted 20,058.8 lbs of food scraps from landfill! We honestly cannot quite believe it. Between the three of us, we have now hauled more than 20,000 lbs up our huge hill — which definitely feels like better, and cheaper, than a gym membership.

Sorry for the long silence, but it has been a busy few weeks for GCP! Since our last blog, we have attended the ReThink Waste Fair, celebrated Earth Day with Parkway School, and played with worms at Live Like Luke — all with a bit of composting in between!

Today we composted super early because the seniors have such a fun-packed day ahead. It was still dark when we set off, which made this morning’s composting feel especially memorable. They say the early bird catches the worm — but in our case, the early composters feed the worms!

Happy Easter and Passover! Pass over that potato to compost! Noah fell down the hill. April fools! Today we collected 118.6 pounds of kitchen scraps. This brings us just over 1 million pounds. April fools! However, we are nearing the 20,000 pound landmark. Today was a terrible day composting. April fools! Today was actually a beautiful day composting. Spring has finally sprung. The weather is warm, the air is fresh and the flowers are blooming. This is great for compost as the warmer weather speeds up the composting process. Looking forward to summer!!

This week, we collected 91.8 pounds of food scraps for composting.

It was a split crew this week at GCP, but that didn’t slow us down!

It’s been a little while since our last update on March 2, and a lot has happened since then so stick with us for a long blog this week!

Although there is still a lot of snow on the ground, there are clues that Spring is just around the corner!  Not only has the air temperature warmed up, but we have noted that activity in our compost pile is picking up!  Despite our active pile being full to the brim last week, today there was a good foot of space for additional scraps.  Not only that, but the pile was a very toasty 126 degrees!

A very quick update as we did not have our full composting ritual this week as we were all away.  Thank you to those of you who dropped off early  - we collected 83lbs of kitchen scraps.  Amazingly, despite neglecting our piles over the weekend and throughout the snow storm, our active pile is still hovering around 100 degrees!  The bin is now completely full, it will be interesting to see how much break down will happen before our next pick up at the end of the week!

While some people worry about bad luck on Friday the 13th, there is no such thing at GCP! Today was a beautiful day for composting, dazzling sun and a hot active pile!

It’s only been a week since our last update, but there’s still plenty happening at the Greenwich Composting Project.

Even with frozen fingers and deep snow, the Greenwich Composting Project doesn’t stop. The last two weeks have brought snow, deep freezes, and plenty of composting creativity.