The Closed-Loop Community Compost Program!
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- This is the Closed-Loop Community Compost Program! We divert food waste from our neighbors, keeping it out of the landfill and making compost to grow food with instead. We do it by bicycle which means burning no fossil fuels. Plus we harvest rainwater and grow our own sponges to wash the buckets!
In this video Robin Greenfield shows how you can start your own Community Compost Program in your neighborhood! Turn the big problem of food waste into the big solution of composting!
Learn more, including how to start a Community Compost Program in your community: www.communitycompostprogram.org
In Partnership with Live Like Ally Foundation www.llafoundation.com
Produced by Robin Greenfield and Jameson Johnson
Filmed and edited by Jameson Johnson
Additional footage by Will Hassell
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Learn more, including how to start a Community Compost Program in your community: www.communitycompostprogram.org/
You look good rob! 😘😘😘😘
I want to do this in my area! St. Petersburg, FL is a pretty health conscious city (as far as cities go..) and I'm sure MANY folks would be happy to participate. Lots of gardeners around here! Thanks for sharing the awesome ideas Rob!
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Natural sponge ✨
So I was wondering why you don't also take the grass when people mow their lawn. It will add to your compost pile. Anyway I lived in Australia for few years and we had a special bin for grass leafs etc. Which is an awesome idea I think. And here in France in some areas they provide compost bins for free to put in your garden. Nice initiative Rob as always
@@michaxx6868 many times people spray the grass with chemical fertilizer and pesticides. Not ideal for organic gardens and since we can't always guarantee the quality of the grass clippings it's best to just avoid them altogether.
I have deep faith that humanity will make it and we will experience a true paradise on earth, but it can be hard to be in good spirits in the midst of all the foolishness, thanks for the inspiration and hope.
It's beautiful to hear you have that faith. I have it as well. Let's make it happen!
The City of Calgary does this at a city level. Every household can get a few pounds of compost every year for free.
However, community compost programs like this makes it more accessible and readily available for everyone. It also increases the visibility of the system and the essence behind it.
This is an inspiration. Kudos to your team!
Woww what a great example of composting ! BRAVO 👏👏....🌱🌱🌱
Rob, you are a modern day Messiah. I love your videos!
I love your energy! and. the upbeat tune in this video! Here in the Netherlands, our food scraps are composted by the municipalities. In my town, Nijmegen, whenever you go to the "recycling street" with the big stuff that does not fit in the bin or does not belong to the categories of plastic / metal, paper, foodscraps / "garden waste", glass or the "rest" bins, (which you have separate bins of at home which are regularly collected at the street corners) for example broken furniture, electric devises, batteries, bricks, cooking oil, etc. When you drop it off at the "recyling street" (200 kg / year free of a fee) you can have 1 or 2 free bags of compost that the municipality has made from our kitchen scraps, branches, leaves, etc.
Gonna try this in my community!
I googled this for the area I live in, and was happy that to find a Compost Club. For about $9 you qualify for return of compost soil, and get discounted soil and mulch. I love that they take items that my recycling service won’t take. Love the loofah sponge idea!!
Love it, love it, love it. Thank you for sharing.
I would love to see more videos like this.
Very good program Rob, may God bless you and your family and friends and, the program. Mr. Tony Stevens.
Oporto city, where I live, started 3months ago a project for composting any organic waste. City hall offered a bucket with a smart card to allow access to special Co tainers for all citizens that wanted to join the program. I was one that chose to join such as most of my neighbors. I no longer mix food scraps with the rest of the garbage. All this will be transformed into compost and offered to farmers. This was probably the best decision in prol of the environment my local politicians made. There is a lot more to do but at least thousands of tons of waste are going to be transformed in compost instead of going to landfills to produce methane and take hundreds of years to compost
I love this idea!! Do you charge a fee for collecting the food waste? Do people have the opportunity to buy some of the finished compost for their gardens? This is how we can help change the world, one step at a time.
I like the idea of making the compost available for a small fee. A town near me collects food waist & twice a year makes it available to residents for free to use in yards & gardens.
Every compost program can choose if they want to charge or do it for free and what to do with the compost.
That information is all covered on the website!
www.robgreenfield.org/communitycompost
Health and happiness to you,
Rob
this is an awesome idea to continue the cycle of food growth :-)
Nice video! This is so inspirational! I already compost by myself, but this is the way to make a bigger impact! It’s literally the SOILution haha 😂 You can also do this with worms 🪱 they eat the foods en carbon and there poop is super rich compost for plants 🌱
The province I am in every home/apartment building has a green bin (food scraps and garden/yard waste). The town comes a collects the scraps to compost. No food scraps ends up in the land fill. It’s been like this over two decades.
Are you Italian?
I love this i wish apartment complexes had this
I have been composting in my apartment balcony for a year now. Sometimes, I have to stop in between when my composting pots are full.I keep a few of them now to reduce the wait.
You always inspire me, Rob with your inspiring videos... Thank you
Man, you are awesome. We compost. Its hard work, not pretty, and smells. But worth it. Love the program.
Thank you for sharing ❤
I absolutely love this idea! We have about 20 rental houses on our 46 acre property. I am fairly new to composting. I’ve been doing it for about a year now and taking it slow but I want to ramp it up and get the community involved. But I had no idea how to get started. Just by watching this video I now have a place to start and a renewed fire to get it started! Thank you so so much!
This is pretty pretty cool! I love the no shoes vibe too!!
my conservative southwestern town approved a grant funded community compost site! we don't use rainwater, homegrown loofa, or bikes but it would be awesome to get there!
So handsome and inspiring!
Great initiative, will start doing this in my community
Awesome Rob! You’re the man!
Such a good and interesting idea. I "only" compost via my worm bin here in the city. For the carbon I use shredded old newspaper and cardboard.
Love from sri lanka 🇱🇰
I love that life and I want to live that way
I’m about try composting in place. Got my scraps, my grass clippings cardboard, my cam. It is a composting and mulching day. ⛏🧑🏾🌾
Well done Rob ! What kind of squash, lupa ? Just grow it large, pick it, and let it dry to that sponge material ? How long do the sponges last with average use ? And how long do they store dry ?
THANK YOU ! ! !
Welcome back. Great info, and Thanks.
Hi Rob! Good to see you again
I love this!!!
Hey Rob, I love watching your videos, they're such a huge inspiration to me. I'm curious though, what are you going to do after May 2023, when IDs are required for air travel? Are you going to try to get your social security card back and get an ID, or are you going to sneak onto cargo boats?
This is great... I do the same thing in my town. I like you very much 💞. I wish I could be part of your team....
I love this. Thanks for the inspiration
I like your shoes.
Marvelous!
OK BUT, two things: 1. A week is a long time for someone to keep a bucket of rotten food. Do you suggest they keep it in a garage or outside? 2. How do you prevent rodents/racoons, etc. in those compost beds. This is such a simple idea, and I just moved to suburbia from a rural permaculture farm so that might have to be a thing in my neighborhood!
Muito bom este vídeo. Gostei das dicas e o reaproveitamento.🇧🇷
Hell yea brother
A zucchini can be left to dry out to be turned into an environmentally friendly sponge? Amazing!
Awesome 👏👏👏😊😊😊, I have a food business.. Gets lots veg scraps 🥦🥕🌽.. Let me trun them to compost.. Most of the time I give to my chickens 🐔..
Fantastic
Early!
Love you chanel
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Hello Rob,
Can you please post a video on making cooking oil from plants or black oil sunflower. Or any plant that we can extract oil from it for cooking.
Thank you for all what you do
You’ll need to protect the IBC totes from sunlight to reduce/eliminate algae growth!
I wish to be just like you. Run away from the city live and create something special.
Great
I make moringa fertilizer
I am so inspired by your idealism! I recently moved from LA (where I was an avid bokashi as well as aerated composter) to a rural location with lots of bears. My local farmer friend warned us against composting-he buries his scraps inside massive woodchip piles to hide the scent.
Do you have any words of wisdom? Have you heard of what it takes to organize a municipality to run a compost program? Los Angeles has green bins, but our rural town only has trash and recycling.
I would love to start something like this in my community! I have a couple questions, do you give away or sell the compost back to the community? Where do the plastic buckets come from? You all are doing some amazing work! - Elise
Consider learning the basics. I hope this vid helps. czcams.com/video/zlEWFPWEnc8/video.html
Go for it!!
That information is all covered on the website!
www.robgreenfield.org/communitycompost
Health and happiness to you,
Rob
Muy, muy interesante, te felicito. Tú haces un trabajo grandioso.
In Europe we already have that system, they call it differentiate rubbish system. In Germany is very developed while normally everything is differentiate between what can be recycled and what not.
Where do you get the 2/3 carbon material? Great program!!!
That information is covered in details at www.robgreenfield.org/communitycompost
Health and happiness to you,
Rob
Nice Video, I say Hello From Indonesia
In Europe is the government doing this though many people don't trust it. Bags made of 100% corn or other organic material are distributed as well but they are also available at the supermarket in an attempt to stop plastic bags. Twice a week, the bags are collected but not the buckets which you have to clean yourself. In the UK and other parts of Europe, veggies and fruit are placed on help yourself stalls to avoid packaging though you must wear plastic gloves to touch the food. Supermarkets and shopping malls are doing this but the best way, in my experience, is to totally boycott such places and rely on small organic farmers and companies which can also deliver your food, farmer markets or ideally, grow your own food. Modern society has totally alienated humans from the power to connect in communities. We must take that power back and stop relying on the illusion of money for our survival.
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I LOVE IT... How can I get the blue print to get started?
good idea
Wonderful! I want to try something like this at our new community “hub”
I was just wondering, do you ever have an issue with the wast starting to stink after a week in the bucket?
Yes, it will smell in the bucket.
Keep the lid on to keep the smell in.
When ready, just dump it in the compost, use plenty of carbon, and wash the bucket.
@@Robin.Greenfield right. thanks for the advice! I wonder if it would also work to give them a container of sawdust or such so they can mix it themselves and cut back on smells. kind of like the compost toilets.
The new town I live in doesn't have a green bin service, I miss it.
what happen to your Bamboo bike? i loved that video.
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I want to start a non-profit that has something to do with composting, maybe partnering with local restaurants and grocery stores I just don’t know where to start!
Can you show how and when to harvest the loofa sponge? Where in the US will the sponge grow?
It would be cool to incorporate bokashi grains into the program
How can i get squirls out of my garden they have killed it 4 times
Can you share how to set up the worm bin
Do yo ever get slivers in your feet ?? Biking barefoot is also hard core
where do you get the woodchips from?
Is this plausible for anywhere with season?
Do you charge weekly subscriber rates? And if so, what is the fee?
What’s wrong with the landfill again?
I'm not for community based compost. It takes up carbon prints that are unnecessary. People should compost at home. There are methods that that break down compost quickly. For instance, anaerobic organisms to decompose mater quickly through fermentation.
I've learn two times more organic for one carbon
what's wrong with your front brakes ?
I was looking at the bike, but I did not notice those breaks. Lol.
all you kids these days are all about saving the earth, well what happened to throwing it in the good ole land fill where it belongs
Here in Germany collecting Bio waste as we call it here is already made for years by every town/ city with the normal waste. We have different buckets for the different wastes. Also for paper, glass, plastics, cans, papers ....