PCCI, More Than Just Food Scrap Collection!
In the month of September 2022, PCCI collected and diverted 2334.6 lbs of food scraps compared to the 939.9 lbs of food scraps in September 2021. This reflects an increase of about 148% of food scraps diverted to compost from September 2021 to September 2022.
Recent Happenings with PCCI:
- Last week PCCI started the first of ten courses of PCCI's Compost Curriculum at Unqouwa School with their 8th grade.
- Stay tuned because, on Monday, October 3rd at 5 PM PCCI will be on WPKN's radio show "Digging in the Dirt" hosted by Kevin Gallagher. You can also check it out on SoundCloud if you can't make it to the live radio show!
- PCCI was at the University of Bridgeport this week talking to students, faculty, and other organizations about all the work we have been doing, as well as, raising awareness about the benefits of composting food scraps, and the positive impact compost has on our local environment.
- PCCI partnered up with the PT Youth Corps to do a community garden clean-up at Shell St. and St. Stephens Rd. community garden! Check it out, what a difference! Stay tuned as there will be another day of planting, and placing wood chips!
SustainableCT x PCCI Community Match Grant Update:
First and foremost, we would like to give a special shoutout and thank you to all of those who have donated and shared our efforts to raise money for the Community Match Grant.
Park City Compost Initiative has raised $2,940 out of the $7,500 goal with 32 out of the 75 donors we need to get matched by SustainableCT! A great start, we need everyone’s help to get over the finish line. These funds are important to our continued educational programming and awareness building of compost’s benefits to the community.
