CLEVELAND, Ohio – Food waste generated at the West Side Market will soon be diverted from landfills and sent instead for composting. And if food items are still good, they would go to the hungry.
The market composting program is expected to kick off after the New Year, once vendors make it through the busy holiday shopping season. “We’re actively working with them to ensure that they’ve got more than enough capacity to take all the material from the West Side Market,” Brown said. To get the program up and running, Brown said his company will meet with market vendors and conduct a “waste audit” to determine just how much waste could be composted, and what might be able to go to those in need.
Because Rid-All is a much larger operation than backyard, personal-use composters, it has the ability to process meat scraps and other harder-to-compost items, as well as common items like produce and coffee grounds, Brown said.