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Eco-Friendly Fall Events and Updates
Dear Friends:
Please join VOKASHI as we celebrate City Council’s recent passage of the Zero-Waste Bill and the rollout of Brooklyn’s Brown Bin curbside organics service (1st week in October), as well as education & entertainment to raise awareness about the NYC organics waste landscape at large.
Compost Carnival: Sunday, October 1, 2PM – 5PM
Prospect Park
Park Circle (SouthWest corner)
@ Parkside Avenue
There will be musical and art performances, invited speakers including elected and appointed officials involved with the Zero-Waste Bill, other groups tabling to educate about commercial vs. residential organics collections, community and industrial scale processing, micro-haulers and processors, co-digestion vs composting, and more.
And please share this link with your friends and neighbors – this event is building a composting movement! www.eventbrite.com/e/compost-carnival-2023-tickets-715540921157
VOKASHI Finalist in Pitch Tank Competition
Organized by New York Women in Business and Accompany Capital, Vokashi is finalist in Pitch Tank Competition. Winners will be announced LIVE at an Awards Ceremony on Thursday, October 12th at 5:30-7:30pm ET. The event will be held at Wells Fargo Conference Center at 150 East 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan.
If you can, please consider attending this live event when there will be a chance for a peoples' choice vote!
Register at: nywib.org/events/special-event-2023-pitch-tank-awards-ceremony/
Many thanks for your continued support of VOKASHI. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions or concerns.
—
Vandra Thorburn, Founder
VOKASHI – kitchen waste solution
2021 Citizen's Committee Grantee
2010 2nd Place PowerUp Competition!
vokashi.com
718 623 1911
Vokashi
For easy composting at home
The goal Vokashi set out to achieve is to decrease the amount of food that ends up in landfills. Most of us don't think about where our food is going when we throw it in the trash, but food waste makes up about 1/3 of the waste in landfills in the US. That's a lot! Vokashi aims to change that by following a Japanese method of fermenting food waste. Vokashi takes your food waste and uses it in a composting system. There are many benefits to composting, but one of the biggest ones is lowering your carbon footprint by decreasing the amount of food waste in landfills, which reduces methane emissions. If you want to learn more about the process or how to get involved with this company, visit Vokashi.com.
