Crain’s NY Business Section Trash talk: Composting catches on in NYC
Excerpt from an article appearing in the Crain’s New York online and print issues on July 14th and 15th, 2013:
…”Imagine a building with hundreds of tenants and everyone dumping their scraps in a bin,” said Regina Cornwell, a writer who specializes in climate change. “Even if the containers are fairly closed up, there is always going to be someone who is a slob. Traditional composting is messy, and it will attract bugs and animals.”
Ms. Cornwell composts in her apartment using a Japanese method called bokashi. She pays $40 a month to a small company called Vokashi, which provides a five-gallon container and a mixture of bran and microbes. The mixture breaks down the food by fermenting it, so there is little smell. The company replaces the container each month.
