Crain’s NY Business Section “Dirt cheap: strategies for food scraps”
Excerpt from an article appearing in Crain’s New York on August 21, 2018:
“Microhauler Vandra Thorburn wants to grow her nine-year-old business, Vokashi, which processes about 4 tons of organic waste a month on city-owned land near the Marine Park Golf Course in Brooklyn. She easily could handle 10 tons. “That’s where we want to get to,” Thorburn said.”
Employing bokashi,the Japanese composting method, she gives her clients a microbial culture to mix with their waste, then picks up the 5-gallon buckets in her SUV. Once buried and covered with sawdust, the pickled waste emits virtually no odor and turns into a useful landscaping product.
She would like to see lots of community recycling operations, including those using high-tech composting. ‘There are dozens of old garage spaces we could convert,’ Thorburn said. ‘I’m very much about making this as open as possible.'”
