7,000 tons and counting

Congrats! Collective Resource recently announced an inspiring “7000 Ton” achievement – check out the article reprint below. If you are not currently composting, we urge you to get on-board! One easy way is to join the UCE Composting Coop for only $5/month per person (max of $15/month per household.) See the 2-page Composting Tip Sheet for details. When you’re ready to sign up, just fill out the online UCE composting signup form. Questions? Contact Renee Hoff at rdhoff99@yahoo.com.

And (drumroll!) here’s the Collective Resource article reprint

We’re happy to announce that we have reached another diversion milestone: 7000 tons! Can you believe it?

What’s amazing to us is that’s 7,000 tons lifted, shifted and tipped by hand—no hydraulics. That’s a whole lot of muscle power from our crew. 14 million pounds of lifting and that doesn’t even include the weight of the containers, just the food scraps within. (1)

Because tons are kind of hard to visualize, we used this nifty calculator (2) to try to help you understand how very much that is. It’s about 1/4th as heavy as the Statue of Liberty and equivalent in weight to 60 blue whales, 560 school buses or 1,400 elephants. Can you picture that?

Who do we thank first? Our crew for all of the heavy lifting or our composting community for putting their money and effort where it counts? Don’t make us choose!

By diverting all of those food scraps from landfills, we’ve had the collective impact of reducing 11,978 tons of methane, and we’re not stopping there!

Collective Resource Compost
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(1) The first ton was hauled by Erlene [Howard] with some help from her friend Marla.
(2) If you have a minute, play around with this calculator. On the right is something called “Sort Order”. Changing the setting from “closest first” to “highest first” or “lowest first” yields different and delightful results.