Lettuce Not Waste!
31% of the U.S. food supply goes unsold, unused, or uneaten at home and at businesses. REDUCE FOOD WASTE Shop your fridge, freezer and pantry first before you go to the store California law has now standardized food labeling, only allowing “best by” to indicate...
Compost it.
Napa City and County residents threw out 8% less trash – and composted over 20,000 more tons – during the first eleven years of the food composting program. Thanks for helping reduce waste, decrease emissions and create local organic compost! But, we can do...
Curbside Food Composting Tips
BEAT THE “ICK” FACTOR! Tips To Keep Your Kitchen Pail & Cart Clean: Reduce moisture and odors in your pail or cart by adding soiled paper (like napkins or paper towels), wrapping your food scraps in newspaper, or using a paper bag. You can also freeze your food...
Green Cart Brown Cart
Here in Napa, you may have seen new GREEN COMPOST CARTS alongside the brown ones. To align with a statewide requirement to standardize the colors of carts across California, we’ve started the process of making the switch from brown to green for compost (the...