Turning Trash to Treasure: The Curbside Compost Solution!

It's Earth Day, and in honor of this special day dating back to 1970, discover a simple and positive change you can make each and every day:  food scrap recycling.  Darien's food scrap and recycling program with Curbside Compost has been operational for quite some time, turning food scraps into a resource.  Sounds amazing?  It is!

A starter kit, consisting of a 2 gallon kitchen collection container and a 6 gallon storage and transportation big, and 1 roll of copostable bags will be given away at the event to one lucky participant.

Food scraps are one of the largest components of trash sent to landfills and incinerators. However, food scraps are not trash, they are a resource that can be turned into useful compost. Recycling food scraps into compost captures their nutrients and energy and returns them to the environment. When food scraps are sent to a landfill or incinerator this resource is lost. In addition, food scraps inside landfills create methane, a greenhouse gas with a stronger warming effect than carbon dioxide. When hauled to an incinerator (as we do in Connecticut), food scraps reduce the efficiency of the incinerator because they are wet, heavy and therefore do not burn well.

Composting is a far better way to manage food scraps! Instead of wasting energy burning food or creating methane from landfilling it, composting food scraps yields a useful and valuable product that gives back to our nutrient life cycle, resulting in cleaner soil, water and air.

The best news of all? Curbside Compost is available to Darien residents at our town Recycling Center.

About Curbside Compost

Meet and learn from Nick Skeadas, CEO and owner of Curbside Compost. This company recovers food scraps and delivers living soil. The company was built to restore the nutrient and carbon cycle to CT and NY soil. With consumer participation, organic material is not directed to landfills or incinerated. Curbside Compost reduces emissions by taking advantage of the natural process of decomposition. When composted, the abundant nutrients and organic matter in food scraps are captured and applied to land where they help build and conserve healthy soils. Curbside Compost collects from homes, schools, offices, healthcare, markets, cafes, restaurants, and events in an effort to compost all food remains, including dairy, meat, fish and bones.

About Nick Skeadas

Nick Skeadas is the C.E.O of Curbside Compost. Prior to starting Curbside Compost, Nick worked for almost a decade in asset management with Northern Trust.  Prior to Northern Trust, Nick worked in investment consulting and the consumer product industry. Nick was on staff as a Teaching Assistant for the Academy of Grenoble in France.  He holds a BA in Economics from Bates College and an MBA from Fordham University.  Nick also completed the Master Composter Program at the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources. Honor memberships include Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Epsilon, and the FMA International Honor Society.