FACILITIES SUPPORT FEEDBACK SUBMISSION - IDEA FOR COMPOSTING AT HQ

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06461021
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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2016
• Case Number: F-2015-01600
• Publication Date: March 20, 2015

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Facilities Support Feedback Submission composting at HQ
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Subject: Idea for composting at HQ
Feedback: This is a HQs pilot-project idea to collect coffee & tea grounds for composting. A local,
veteran-owned business could be contracted to remove the grounds to their commercial facility for
processing.
The HQs population consumes a very high volume of coffe & tea, especially with vendors like Starbucks
present. This generates what is likely several tons of waste material for the local landfills, and higher
garbage-management costs overall.
Increasing numbers of local, veteran-owned businesses are diverting that waste stream into usable
compost, For example -- Veteran Compost(www.veterancompost.corn), a MD-based company, collects
commercial-scale and residential food scraps for composting.
Benefits of veteran-owned commecial composting --
* Potentially much cheaper than hauling to landfills.
* Lower garbage-handling costs overall.
* Veteran-owned will always be US controlled.
* Long-term sustainable waste-management practice.
*The contracted business would provide the collection bins needed for the pilot project.
I am not affiliated in any way with Veteran Compost, and would support any similar veteran-owned type
of composting enterprise.
Save money/green initiative/US controlled/support US veterans = win 'la
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