Central China TV aired this piece on Vokashi and New York City’s initiative to compost food waste:
- 0:00 – 0:42 Food Waste Intro:
New York City’s mayor wants to reduce the cost and environmental impact of food waste. He’s expanding a pilot composting program that if successful, experts believe that in a few years, could become mandatory…
- 0:43 – 0:56 Beginning of Food Waste Piece:
New York City’s new focus on composting is good news to Vandra Thorburn. She’s the founder of Vokashi, a composting company that specializes in a fermenting process called Bokashi… Rather than letting food Waste rot–which is what would happen if food waste is left out in the air–you use a bran inoculated with these beneficial microorganisms that begin to pickle the food waste. This minimizes foul smells. The food waste is then mixed with earth and wood shavings and turned into soil.
- 1:05 – 1:55 A Vokashi Future:
Vokashi wants to take this process and implement it on a much larger scale–shifting away from the residential sector to the commercial sector–where small businesses might have kitchens and need these kind of services…
