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!
GCP has a lot to be grateful for. When we started out we had no idea if this project would be a success, but we are so fortunate to live among amazing neighbors who have made GCP what it is today. Your support is truly appreciated and through your efforts we have achieved so much! Thank you all, as you are all Waste Warriors!
Now for this week's numbers! Despite two households being away, we still diverted 140.1lbs of kitchen waste from landfill. We also heat treated 100lbs of finished compost ready for Spring. Talking of Spring, our compost piles seem to be sensing there are only a few days to go as the temperatures soared last week, with the hottest pile reaching 150 degrees!
Give your food scraps a second chance - compost with us!
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