Learn about UMass Amherst’s food recovery efforts across the food recovery hierarchy, including source reduction, donation, and composting.
Learn about capturing building materials for reuse and recycling from an Auburndale Builders project in Wayland, MA.
Learn how Saloomey Construction diverted over 90% of construction and demolition materials from disposal at The Columns project in Northampton.
Learn how Boston Public Market, with the help of RecyclingWorks, donates surplus food and compost food scraps.
Learn how RecyclingWorks helped the Lenox Hotel in Boston estimate current food waste volumes and develop a successful food scraps diversion program in their three on-site restaurants. See the updated Lenox Hotel Video and Written Case Study (2019) to learn how they expanded their waste diversion program to include food donation.
Learn how the Lenox Environmental Committee and RecyclingWorks helped eight small restaurants start diverting food scraps for composting.
Learn how Massachusetts College of Art and Design set up a successful front and back-of-the-house compost collection program that diverts about 80 tons of food waste annually.
Learn how RecyclingWorks helped Gardner Ale House establish a successful program to divert food scraps to an off-site pig farm in advance of the commercial organics ban.
BioCycle Magazine featured the organics diversion program at Deerfield Academy. This independent boarding school has been diverting compostable waste from their dining hall for years. The school has been expanding efforts to divert organic waste across the campus as part of an effort to overhaul the campus-wide recycling program. The school calls this effort “Think…
Learn how America’s Food Basket stores worked with CERO, an employee-owned cooperative, and RecyclingWorks to implement a successful composting program.