Town sustainability coordinator Scott Semroc stated he often hears inquiries about and needs for expanded composting alternatives in Solar Prairie.
“There is tons and tons of foodstuff waste filling up” the Dane County Landfill, Curbside Composter owner Derek Fry mentioned. Just after seven yrs in enterprise, he estimates just about every Madison restaurant has in between 400 and 1,200 kilos of food stuff squander for every 7 days.
“Most of the meals waste could be separated and perhaps used as animal feed as is if we have been very careful about it, but there is so a great deal of it,” he mentioned. “I set as major of a dent in it as I possibly can.”
Earth Stew owner Joanne Tooley mentioned she, way too, designs to obtain a small, in-vessel procedure following 12 months.


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Stanger was born in Madison and grew up in Solar Prairie, Monona and Madison. His spouse and children has lengthy been into yard gardening and composting and for most of his lifetime has eschewed meat and fish, the continues to be of which are not quickly composted.
Right after graduating from Madison West High Faculty he headed to Knox University, a compact liberal arts college in Illinois. After earning his physics diploma, he moved to Chicago and worked at Hinsdale, Illinois-based green builder BrightLeaf Properties and Galesburg, Illinois-based Sitka Salmon Shares, which also has an procedure in Madison.