Hey everyone, and welcome to episode 31 of practically zero waste a podcast for making zero waste living as practical as possible. This week's episode is particularly exciting because I have with me today the co-founder of the share waste a police car bomber over in Sydney Australia nail it we talked all about the value of preventing food waste composting food scraps and building that Bloody Community with people around you in order to save the planet. If you're into all of that and want to help support the podcast you can leave a rating or review on Apple podcasts or head to Anchor. Dot f m / practically zero waste and hit the support button and if you haven't seen her Instagram and Facebook posts from last week about our super awesome giveaway contest head over to your social media and check it out contest closes May 26 at midnight open to listeners worldwide, but enough of that. Let's get down to sharing our waste. Hello - good. How are you? Yeah. Good. Where are you in Canada? So I'm in Ontario but Southern Ontario so we've got a pretty pretty nice climate. It's not bitter cold. Yeah, Australia what part of Australia are you in Sydney? Sydney? Australia is great if you want to spent a lot of time Outdoors. Oh good. Yeah, totally. Yeah, when's this like the coldest would be 10 degrees and it's still sunny. So you get a lot of sunshine, which is Magic. And how people think and how people walk with smiles and the street so that is so true. It's spring time now and in Canada and we're just coming into the 10 degree 15 degree days, and it's amazing. There's so many more people outside and everybody's smiling. It's really nice. Yeah. So what is share waste and like what was the story behind it? How did you decide to make this app? So Story is actually quite simple. We moved to Sydney to a little apartment in a very busy. Very vibrant neighborhood called new town. Okay, I think it's the fact that we moved to New time is actually quite important for the first story. And because we do by quite a lot of baking soda fruit, we realize we're producing a lot of organic waste and when you produce a lot of organic ways in Australia because most of the year, it's either warm or or really hot here. Yeah, stop smelling and the band pretty much immediately. Wow. We also knew that somebody else might be quite happy to use it in their God their worms who for their compost. So we had an idea that maybe somebody local because the community here is very specific. Most people are friendly and open and very I would say Eco and green oriented. We thought well, maybe some They would be happy to take our scraps and use them in their Garden. I found a lady who actually said yes, please come over. I'm already taking scraps from local cafe and from my neighbor's why not? Let's grab some more to my compost. That's how the initial idea started and because my husband is a software engineer. He thought hmm. Maybe this would be an interesting side project. So he started working. In the better version of the first ad and yeah, that's how the story began. I love that. It's called share waste. How did you come up with the name? Well, first of all, we had to find the name that didn't have a registered website. Yeah. Also, we actually love sharing if I could I would share anything. We have been our apartment and like all things we have in our flat. We use Kosh airings we go to to libraries and community. Libraries, so we love the concept of sharing. I don't think that you need to have everything in your house. Once the community has it people can easily borrow it and use it and share it and prepare it together. There's no point why everybody should buy and have everything separately. So we wanted to use the concept of sharing and connection and the cycle of things together with the waist and I think it works quite well. Hmm. It's a beautiful because it's not here dumpier dump your waste at my house or give give me your way so that I can grow a garden. It's this sharing of something that's valuable as opposed to disposing of something right Stephen. One of our goals showing people that most things have value even when you think they don't have any value anymore kitchen scraps or any veggies crabs become waste once we dump them in the garbage bin, but before that we can still use them we can still give them somebody's chickens. We can still use them to fertilize the garden to be a welcome. You know, we're trying to keep the resources in their food and life cycle for a little bit longer and then and I read them in a better way so good. I like that a lot and I like just talking about how things can contribute so much more if you let them have the chance if you thought that they have a personality, but your food scraps are just dying to be something more than organic matter in a landfill. It really is. Yeah actually run a chemical analysis you find so many important nutrients our soils actually lack these days. Absolutely. Well, it's depleted. It's very very hard in many cases. So absolutely in your and we've talked about this on the podcast a lot to is that every time you're growing something in the ground if it's in a garden or if it's an industrial-sized Farm, you're depleting the soil because all of them nutrients those in the ground is going into that plant and then the plant is reused exactly. So and what happens to the nutrients when we don't just give them back we need to give them back because we are just using up the soil all the nutrients everything that's good in it, but we are not giving anything back. So everything should go back that's what's kind of like the idea of sharing again is happening with the Earth like sharing is kind of a give and take it's not a gift of one sided but sharing is back and forth. So you're taking from the Earth to have some food and When you are returning things to the Earth, it's the scraps and the kind of nutrients to put it back in there and that cycle continues exactly. I think that for me also the idea behind it is take only what you need and give what you can exactly the same with food ways. I mean, there's no need to take more than we actually need for a life or we need to make us happy. But whatever we don't need we just should pass it on give it back unless it's somebody else to you. It absolutely I like that a lot. Tell me a little bit about the app and about the website that's attached to it. How does that kind of work? We have a day. sporadic and the way the app pretty much works is that it's based on a map. So if you go to share ways.com, you can open a map and you can see local people who compost on the map and if you click on them, you can have a look what they are happy to accept what they can't accept how much waste and what the waste should look like. So anybody can register either as a compost host to accept or as a donor to donate whatever. They produce it can be Garden ways. It can be kitchen ways. It can be anything organic that is compostable or that can be fed to farm animals. And once you register, you can contact local Compass hose or if you're a compost host you wait for local donors to get in touch with you and offer you there are kitchen scraps or organic waste in general and so people are allowed to say in my compost. I would like to Not accept I don't know meat scraps or I would like to not accept grease or even even things that are technically compostable according to their label like maybe a kitchen catcher, you know, those plant-based plastic bags, you know there. Auntie of what people are happy to accept and what not is actually huge. If you go to any composting guy they will tell you you can compost this and you can compost that don't put in any me don't put in any bread and don't don't put any any Citrus into worm Palm. But in reality there is so much variety and it's very individual because everybody who has a compost they are proficient in how to run their as well and how to make their webs happy. So only people would actually accept some Citrus in there worm farms if it's cut up very fun. And if it's not too much of it or a lot of people are happy to accept some meat would be happy to accept food ways, like pasta or bread. I'm not saying that everybody would yeah that is very individual on the other side of that range. There are people who for example wouldn't accept tea bags because there is a little bit Microplastic totally. Yeah, so the range is huge. Some people are very strict with their happy to put in their compost or where they're happy to feed their friends. But some people openly say I take anything as long as as it's shredded or cut up very fun and less long as it's not too much of it. Yeah. I've had maybe four different people reach out to me in my local area and they've all come by at some Point and dropped off some compost and I've given them some guidelines. Like I think it's a great idea to collect it in a large container in your freezer for the week. And then come by when you can I've met them a couple of times and I want to put up a little sign that says like composter this way. This is like with the share we stopped information stuff. I actually have enjoyed so much connecting with people and it's great because Most people are very creative. So they come up with ideas how to make the system better. And once we have the information you're happy to pass it on then show other people how they can make the system work really smoothly and very easily from both sides. What we also really like about choez because for us it's I would say huh of the whole thing is about sustainability and better use of resources, but the rest is about building Unity getting to know people connecting with local community members that's equally important for us because we think that the way we treat the planet and our environment very much depends on how we collaborate. Absolutely. It's partially how we're treating each other. Yeah, if people are not in touch they come. Yeah, they have no power and I think that a community has a lot of power if people are connected and they know about the resources they have I mean, each of us has some things some some skills and knowledge and some items and some possessions, but if you take every single person in the community, imagine how rich it is with all the knowledge all the skills all the Parents, that's amazing. And that's why we encourage people to me because our compost house has they have so much knowledge about composting about gardening about everything you can get locally. So yeah right now I'm reasons why we bother want people to meet and exchange and share and talk. And yeah, I'm so excited to actually just talking about Community. I want to start reaching out to the people who have been in touch with me and who drop off. On a regular basis because I love composed. I'm a passionate composter. And so I want to be able to say oh what if we did a composting workshop on how to you know, get the most out of your food scraps before it even comes to my composter or what if we you know all get together and shovel it and turn it every few months or something. Like what if we do community things together. Yeah. Yeah. Pro workshops a lot of our compost house, especially the ones who love pompous you already understood that yes. This is what I need for my garden and the more I have the better. Yeah, they are trying to organize their donors and they break a little late and they created some guidelines to make a the whole drop of process. Very organized. Some of them actually have a little Community herb garden or a little area. Lovely go and get some herb Cliff hangs for get some excess produce from the garden, but the lovely ideas yeah are happy to give to their donors some eggs to take home. I mean what's better most of us buy eggs from supermarkets because there is no other option, but once you bring your scrubs to host and you get a dozen of eggs to take home from somebody who has very happy. Arrange chickens. I mean it's amazing though something better. That's so cool the idea of having a little part of my backyard garden, which I'm just in the process of building. We've just moved to this place that is open for community members to come in like take a little snip of Basil home with them or whatever. They're planning for their supper. I like that so much. I hadn't even thought of that in fact life. You live in the city and don't have a God. Yes. In the center, we have no God, no green space whatsoever. We can't we definitely can't compose here. And if I want to get some fresh basil or Rosemary when I'm cooking I in most cases we have to go to supermarket when I go see my house. I can ask them. Is it? Okay if I cut as a cynic with a few bits of puzzle, but most house would say I would you like to take some Would you like to take some Tomatoes we have heaps right now? Yeah, exactly. Oh, so how far of a walk is it for you to go to your compost host? So the first lady we had which was before we started creating the app. She was about 30 minutes walk from us, which was a bit bar. Especially when you have a tank pillow caddy for compost. Wow compost to be they was actually one of the reasons why we decided to create an app to help us find somebody much closer. And now we have three hosts. We rotate regularly all of those three hosts have uttered owners in the area as well. And I would say one it's about five minutes away. And the other two are about 10 minutes away. I like the idea of having multiple drop-off spots for you because then it depends on where you're going to be out and about during the day then you make your choice about where You going to drop off your compost? Yes, and Always eat sometimes yeah in Winter the whole process is lowlier. So composting slows down so they can't accept as much compost as in the summer and it's nice to have more people. Yeah. It's just nice to see them talk to them and say hi. We also had a few house at the very beginning who are not hosting any more because they moved to smaller places and they can't host. All their compost is too busy so they can't accept any more. We are still friends. We still meet regularly when we have time, which is nice. He's yeah, you've made a connection or relationship there DM. Sydney without any family. I must say that 95% of people we know here we met face to share ways. That's amazing. So, how did you originally get the word out about your app once it was created I pretty much spur Facebook Channel Why so soon after we pray least be at a little bit later our Instagram account? Because we in the original stage, we had the app, but nobody knew about it really didn't really realize how much potentially to had it then it just started growing and growing and it's been growing since but at the very Beginnings we met two people who are who are I think very important for us because one of them told us, Hey, you need to an Instagram account. This is an amazing app. Let's just let's just get the word out totally and the other one said pretty much the same. So even when we didn't have any users at the beginning and nobody knew about it, the first 10 or 20 people helped us so so much well to feel more confident about the potential of the app. Just knowing hey, you have something valuable and it's great that you Tell everybody about it. So I think that helped us a lot in the very beginnings and then people started sharing it the community started growing and we are adding more new little features. That is so now when is 7,000 something-something members Y which is uses. Yes. I knew once register every day. Wow. Well, congratulations, that's wonderful. That's so good. And so how Different countries. Do you know like who's using so many different countries? Yeah that we have many working community. He's Trey Leah, New Zealand the states Canada even in Asia and Europe. I was surprised to find out that we have even working communities in countries where English is not spoken such as Hungary. Well, I mean, it's amazing. We have snow former relationship to Hungry. We didn't physically go there to spread the word about the app, but apparently somebody found this out and tell who the rest of the community and that Started spreading slowly. We have a functioning community in Portugal in Malaysia. Wow. So how important is composting for the planet. Ah, explain me what happens when we don't compost please do so when we don't compost whatever scraps we have off to cooking or mowing the god. And it all goes to landfill and what happens is in landfill is that there is very little oxygen excess and landfill in general is toxic because it's not just our organic ways, but there is a lot of plastic and metal and all packaging Composites everything. Nobody else wanted it makes us together. So it's very toxic. Sometimes people think that when they're organic waste goes to landfill so it just decompress Because this right it goes underground. So why why we should compost when it can easily decompose and landfill. Yeah that could we see things rotting. Yeah. Would you like to have a garden on a formula to fill? I don't think anybody would like to have a garden on a formal axle end because it's toxic because in landfill, there are no living organisms and bacteria and webs and little tiny. Creepy crawlies. We need to compost probably in landfill. There is none of that. Yeah, and the result is just a huge toxic heat which produces a lot of greenhouse gases, especially a lot of methane, which we now know contributes to global warming. So that's the biggest for me the biggest reason ecological white compost also, For me, it's amazing. That composting is the only for me is the only type of recycling you can do at home. Can you recycle plastic at home? No, can we recycle paper? Cardboard metal glass? No, but organic ways. Yes, we can it's yeah, you don't need much space. It's very cheap to start. It's easy. Anybody can learn that so why we are still not doing it or many of us. I don't know. You have to look any type of waste recycling. It's very pricey. It's very complex. Most of the waste most of plastic and glass has to travel to another country right baby stifled and then it's shipped somewhere else. It's such an expensive process not mentioning the ecological impact, right? Anybody can do it in their Garden or on a balcony. Can have a worm farm or anybody can just walk to their neighbor with their scraps. We've talked about this again on the podcast to bit like recycling is totally a Band-Aid. It is not the solution. It is trying to clean up a mess that already exist, but it's not not the answer is not preventive. Yeah, that's hard to wrap your mind around because it's reduce reuse recycle. That's the slogan that we've heard from, you know, our childhood. That's what you're taught in school that Great Reduce Reuse, but the recycle seems to be where people jump to First and it's this disposal idea that you know, oh, well, I put it in the recycling. I'm not even going to wash it because I'm sure they wash it at the recycling plant. Why wouldn't they and so to just stop and think like you said about could I do this at home? Could I recycle plastic at home? What does it take to recycle plastic? Wow, that's a huge ordeal and requires so much effort and resources and water. ER and time and money to be able to just skip the process and try and try as much as you can to not buy something in packaging in the first place and it also makes you feel great that you can actually do something yourself like what how many things we can fix or how how many things we know how how they work how many things we can do without a huge process of things going from place to place all very long process. This is something anybody can do pretty much without any special knowledge. I'm just a compost bin. That's great. Be honest. Yeah to me. There's also another level that goes together with waste and it's the whole negative impact of the waste markets and waste management. And that's what the people who actually deal with our waste in countries such as India and China and they African Ruiz what working conditions they have and what impacts our ways has on their countries because then it goes to their landfills. Oh, that's so embarrassing as a it is it is country to send their ways to somebody else's like it's that whole not in my backyard like, oh, I don't see the landfill so I don't so it doesn't exist. So it's It helps when you went everybody imagines the landfill how the left looks like when there was a landfill in it how the people what working conditions that people have they're actually people who physically have to select and separate and pick up various pieces of garbage because we weren't able to separate with her we weren't able to compost it or we just didn't care didn't bother me. Disgusting working conditions because in those countries there is no work can help safety nothing. That what an extra level to consider. That's so important to visualize the me. Definitely a thing. in many cases to switch to something else without thinking about the whole impact about the whole process. It's it's nice to know the whole journey of stuff like how things are made how much water goes consumed how much energy what who is actually involved in the process? What are their working conditions? What about the shipment? What about the logistics? What does it take to create a mobile phone? Oh my gosh, the number of Things like all my screens broken. So I just throw it away like oh Yeah. excellent point make better decisions in life. It's yeah, it was no use but it's good to know the context. So we'll put I like that. What is the zero waste Community or the low waist movement like in Australia, especially in Sydney? Yeah. I think it's very fitted. To be honest wait, we are not so much on social media apart from running our at because we are already so busy with managing everything and trying to keep it together as it's been growing and growing. Oh, yeah, but there are two in local Australian influences. We really like and that's Lindsay from treading my own path and airing from the Rogue Ginger, I would recommend to anybody to follow because they Have great ideas and tapes and they they try the experiment and they're trying to find their way to zero waste or lower rates live there trying to do things better and inspire people and that's exactly what we're trying to do to inspire and to show that many things can be done. You just need to make the decision. That's so awesome. I actually have heard of treading my own path. And so So I am glad to I didn't know that she was Australian. So that's really cool. Yes. Yeah, check out. roach in YouTube, absolutely in sustainable look like Living our young moms with little kids who were trying to leave a good life. Yeah list of leave the planet in a better state that it was for their children. Yes of the future Generations housing in such a prank in nice motivation to think about how we live and how we could do things better. Here's a random question. If not, I guess it's not random because we're talking about compost but what would happen if the hole? Worldcom posted and could we ever go back to that because I'm sure yeah. And what we could grow in it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean condos this really important and it's not just in Australia because Australia experiences regular droughts right uncle's actually helps the soil retain water what I didn't know that. Yes. That's that's one of the reasons why many gardeners want to get as much compost as they can. So it's about the nutrients, but it's also about retaining most Trent avoid water. It's a protection. It's a protection from the site sunshine and it's a way how to keep water in your veggie page for around new trees. I didn't realize oh, yeah, that's awesome. So if the whole world was composting and every city had either Municipal compost pickup or everybody had backyard composters that somehow they could contribute to the farmers who don't have enough compost to cover their entire Farm. fields Our landfills for instance. I think it would be pretty much the same in Canada or the state. Yes. It is in Australia, but in most cases for most people 50% of what they throw in their garbage bin is compostable. Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's mostly food. Yeah food scraps actuals coffee grounds used coffee grounds wasted wasted food like leftovers that go bad exactly. Yeah leftovers. So once once we started around well composting what once we started chair ways. We have very little garbage because who dressed we have we can easily recycle and it doesn't smell your garbage doesn't smell because you're not putting anything bad in there. Yeah, just important in a warm country. Well, it smells in Australia. It attracts them. Totally. Oh, I like the cold cold Winters in Canada because it kills all the big bugs. So yeah, you pretty much cut down. Absolutely. What's your tip for encouraging people to participate in share waste because I know so many people who don't Just because it's not as simple as garbage pickup. And so if it's a 10-minute walk if it's a five-minute walk if it's a 20-minute Drive. What can we say to motivate people to just take that extra step because I know you just have to care but also like what about people who don't really care. How can we get them on board too? About the planet as such but they maybe they would care about somebody else. They know a lot of our donors are motivated by the fact that they physically go to somebody and they can see their God and they can injure their produce as well. Once the connection is made. I think it becomes easier imagine you're always helps and making it more personal. That's why We want people to physically need to have the personal contact to see hey Luke. This is my God. These are my chickens and dots and they're going to enjoy your food scraps. Thank you so much for them. But what do you realize because it's just like garbage then they dumped in the bin. So wonderful amazing resources, but doesn't realize oh my God, somebody's thanking me for my Bootstrap, somebody's thanking me for my ways. Why? Yeah. That's what helps them keep motivated. I think that's a great idea and it takes it you could not talk about being environmentally friendly or save the planet or anything in that whole little bit that you just said and that could still motivate somebody because it's an act of kindness really that's that sharing right? exactly something and benefit from for you. It has no no value but for a local Garden or for a local community garden, that's something that really it really something if you have a look and it photos of garden their new compost and rich soil how happy they are they understand how valuable it is. Yeah. Oh, I love that. I just can't wait to it's very very close to planting season and That this episode will be coming out the May long weekend in Canada, which means everybody gets the plant stuff and it's so excited. Absolutely. Okay. So yeah, that would be great. If I ever organize a meet up with my compost owners, I will totally send a picture of your way. Yeah. We'll set through and well, I'm your girl trust me. I am very excited about your app. Yeah. No, I have told like every person that I've meant And that's probably why we have so many people around Ontario. I love the idea of something like composting becoming normalized and accessible to people and I think that your app helps it become accessible because people get stuck right you you think well, I don't have Municipal compost pickup and I don't have a backyard or a balcony. I don't want to have worms in my apartment. So what? I supposed to do about it. if there was Just wait for us. And for many people it is still there still in this situation when I think about my grandma's generation, if you didn't compost you would be weird with the fry. It was so normal when people started moving to cities and the whole disposable culture started. Yeah caring about some things. Yeah, and there's not as much value put on food right look if You if you valued every part of that red pepper that you're chopping up, then you wouldn't leave any of it. That's edible behind or the same with any kind of food, especially leftovers like food that is already cooked and prepared. Some people just don't like leftovers and that's whatever just cook Less in the first place in order to not have leftovers just put more value because you had to pay for that food. So exactly value it I paid for it. Value it totally. Cook too much and just throw it in the bin. I think twice before throwing anything in the bin. Yeah. Yeah, and if and if that could be applied to more things so not necessarily like make your own clothes or anything like that, but if you Don't buy into fast fashion as much then when you buy something for three dollars, you don't value it as much and so when that shirt gets a stain on it that you can't wash it out. Then throwing it in the garbage is kind of an easy step for you to take because you only spent $3 on it. But like if you value even something that was only $3.00 so much more than maybe you'd put more effort into getting the stain out or just turn it into a You're something else, you know, like it we have a value problem. I think totally wait A two things turned off made locally people don't know how things are made. That's true. Yeah who's involved in the process? So I think that's the first step for most people to rethink their maybe the way they live for if they are waste is to think about every single item. They are going to buy and what's behind it and maybe they will decide that they don't actually hold it. Yes. It doesn't have Value and salt for or it's not so far of the right value which is in most cases right or they actually don't need it because the waste management and the follow-up process would be too expensive too heavy on Waste Management. That is totally one of the main benefits of valuing something local or or shopping local is that it creates this mindfulness or this awareness of where your stuff is coming from and who made it like if you are encountering the farmer who grew your sweet potatoes at the farmers market then you know, you are putting a face to that in your understanding. Wow, he had to you know, suffer through all this heavy rain. We've been having or you know lack of rain. We've been in a drought or something and I can appreciate that. This is the fruit of his labor and so or her labor, sorry, so yeah. They putting a space to all the people involved in the process. That's so important. And he just said it. Do you have any other tips for people in order to get involved in share waste or anything else that you want to share? Yeah, so Just do as I say. Combat can accept food scraps or more organic ways anybody even if you have a local General Store and you have a compost at the bag, please do register anybody can join in also on the other side. If you produce any type of organic ways that can be composted or that can be fed to farm animals. He can register as a donor for instance if you produce. Sold our store Garden clippings or even using paper is very valuable forgotten as it can go as the brown layer in the compost bin. So Graham free to register and offer it to somebody a lot of gardeners would be so happy to send newspaper because they just don't buy any they are struggling with finding the brown brown materials into their compost. So there is Way somebody who could actually benefit from what you have and you can't use anybody can register. We also have cafes and local little businesses who can actually start sharing their food scraps and especially used coffee grounds as long as they're willing to help people get on board and make the system the pickup system easy for the community and it's great. The building because especially with small family local businesses. I know how Fierce the competition can be and once you have a community of regulars and people who stand behind you where local yeah, it's great. It has a lot of power and these people will be happy to support you once here you're going through some difficult times in terms of running a business. Oh, yeah. Well, that's great. And I love that you mentioned restaurants. You so if you are a restaurant or business owner, it would be so great to be able to connect with a farmer who has the capacity to compost or process with their animals all of the food scraps that you could give them. That would be so cool. If all of the restaurants in an area or able to partner with farmers in the area and they you know, streamline the pickup process and and the bagging process whatever it is to ship it to them off of you so good. Yeah. Let's get in touch research getting to it. Yes, it's possible. We've seen it many ways many times. A lot of people are already doing it somewhere else. So yes, you can do it too. Thank you so much for connecting with me and for figuring out the time difference and scheduling children being watched and yeah. Thanks so much. For chat fatty greetings. Thank you. Have a good night, Ellie. Oh good day. I mean, yeah, it's like 10 p.m. Here. Yeah. Enjoy your afternoon. Bye. Thanks again for listening everyone. If you want to become a donor or a compost host anywhere in the world go to share ways.com and sign up because it's totally free and in fact preventing food waste and composting food waste our number 3 and number 60 in drawdown projects list of a hundred solutions for reversing climate. Change so do it. If you can't compost where you live. There's someone nearby who can take your scraps and you can find them on share waste.com. If you liked today's episode on composting you'd probably enjoy episodes 11 with the zero waste Chef number 14 of it learning to cook and number 24 the living composter. You can find all of those and more on our archives wherever you get your podcast. If you want to be attached you can email the podcast at practically zero waste at gmail.com. You can find us all on Instagram and Facebook at share waste and at practically Zero waste pod find me on Instagram and LZ Callahan this week. I challenge you to encourage some of the combos because every bit helps. Have a great week everyone and talk to you soon.
Alice has food scraps. Bob has a composter. Share Waste helps them find each other! This week's episode has us talking compost with Eli Bramborova, co-founder of the Share Waste App, which connects people who wish to recycle their kitchen scraps with their neighbours who are already composting, worm-farming or keeping chickens. Now you can divert waste from landfill while getting to know the people around you! Learn more and sign up (it's free!) You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Overcast and more. ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/practicallyzerowaste/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/practicallyzerowaste/support 