FEF will be composting food waste with the City of Miami!  It's something we have been working on for the past 15 months and should recieve a good deal of media attention.

"We will be diverting what was once food waste from our local landfills and instead composting it and sending it back to the urban gardens to grow food that the community and local businesses will want to buy and consume. Thus we will be creating a useful product out of what normally causes tremendous environmental degradation, as food residuals create methane gas (which is 23 times more powerful than CO2) and leachate (a highly toxic liquid) when they enter our landfills. At this moment, we in South Florida have no commercial option for composting as no one is permitted to carry on commercial composting operations with food waste. We as residents can compost, but high volume producers of food residuals, such as hotels, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, food manufacturers and processors, have no alternative but to send their residuals to the landfills where the methane it produces creates havoc with our climate and the leachate degrades our water and soil quality. Ever year, Americans spend US$1.3 trillion to send organics to the landfills, where we could instead compost the organics and return badly needed nutrients to our soils. To read about the full story, please click here