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Food waste and composting for businesses in the CRD
The Compost Education Centre (CEC) is a charitable non-profit based in Victoria, BC whose vision is to cultivate resilient communities, which support the land and all living beings to thrive.
To address our region’s interwoven challenges of climate change, food insecurity, and social disconnection, the CEC takes a place-based educational approach consisting of a unique focus on “hands-on regenerative soil practices (HORSPs),” a learning process that emphasizes equity access, and a reciprocal relationship with nature. HORSPs are activities that can be done at the individual level to restore soil and ecosystem health, address inequity, and leave our land, waters, and climate in better shape for future generations.
What your business needs to know
About the Compost Education Centre
The Compost Education Centre believes that it is through changing how individuals operate at the small scale that we shape larger patterns of human systems. Our education, behavior change, and empowerment activities have an impact on individuals that aggregates into impacts on communities, systems, and policies.
Since 1992, the CEC has provided free and affordable education on topics ranging from composting and climate change to food insecurity, waste diversion, and soil health. In the past 34 years, the CEC has reached over 3,500,000+ children, youth, and adults through their educational programs and resources.
The CEC's organizational practices sustain the CEC, the natural environment, and our communities. The CEC actively works towards right relations, anti-oppression, and environmental justice in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples on whose land we work.
Composting for businesses
This “Composting for Businesses” Factsheet will remind you of hidden ways your business might be creating food waste, describe what happens at an industrial composting facility, and share ideas for how businesses in the region can deal with food waste and other organic waste.
Composting for Businesses factsheet
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