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NASA Glenn Composts Food Scraps Here at the NASA Glenn Research Center, we have made a first step to reducing our waste produced on the center. With over 3,000 employees, we generate a lot of trash. We are recycling about 60% of our plastics, glass…

July 29, 2009

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Food Waste Composting Stakeholders

Join this group if you are interested in food waste composting in NEO.

July 17, 2009

Sarah Biggar is now a member of Zero Waste Northeast Ohio

Welcome Them!

July 17, 2009

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Your organization

NASA Glenn

Your website

http://www.nasa.gov

What attracts you to the concept of zero waste?

The logic behind the process of reducing your waste. It doesn't make sense to throw something into a landfill for the rest of time. We need to take action now.

What is your organization doing to eliminate waste?

Recycling programs (including aluminum cans, glass, plastic, all paper, ink cartridges, computer monitors, cardboard), a new composting program in the cafeteria, education

What motivated you to join ZeroWasteNEO.org?

Learn best practices, Share resources, Network with others

What do you need to learn to be able to take action towards Zero Waste?

How to get around the financial problems that you can run into when trying to reduce waste.

Please describe your organization's waste reduction goals (i.e. zero waste by 2019).

The center has set goals of reducing waste by 35% and we have already achieved that goal. Currently we recycled 57% of our municipal waste and 95% of our construction/demolition waste.

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At 10:39am on July 17, 2009, Annabel Khouri said…: Hi Sarah,

Welcome to zerowasteneo. I'm so glad to see the center has already reached its waste reduction goal.....congratulations! Imagine if you set a zero waste BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) what kind of results you might achieve. We are trying to attract 50 organizations to set a zero waste by 2019 goal and would love to see NASA Glenn on the list!

If you want to share the composting story with the group, please feel free to post a comment. You can also share any waste challenges you have via the forum or blog.

Look forward to meeting you soon.

Annabel