- Five loyal sponsors – Anodyne, Comet Café, River West Co-Op and Café, Honeypie, and Lulu Café – continue to pay us for weekly preconsumer pickups.
- Our successful postconsumer pilot program revealed an untapped market for large-scale organic waste diversion.
- Total collection volume on the order of 10,943 pounds (or about 5.5 tons) of diverted organics logged to date by our volunteer couriers.
- Our postconsumer trial program, even in its abbreviated life, diverted just over 29,000 pounds or 14.6 tons.
- Soil donations and compost bin construction at Bradley Tech High School (10 cubic yards) and We Grow Greens youth mentoring program (5 cubic yards).