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GREEN South African coffee house Bootlegger Coffee has par tnered with food waste management specialist company Ywaste to turn its waste into compost.
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ootlegger Cof fee Company’s customers can now buy gardening essentials along with their cappuccino, as the company has par tnered with a food waste management specialist to turn its waste into compost. South Africa’s municipal landfills are rapidly running out of airspace, and the solution is recycling, says Pieter Bloem, co-founder and director, Bootlegger Coffee Company. “We want to play our par t to help the countr y avoid reaching day zero for landfill airspace. So, now our customers can up their ecofriendly street credibility by buying bags of Bootlegger topsoil, potting soil and compost made with their used coffee grounds and organic food waste, for just R40 a bag,” Bloem says.
Bootlegger has engaged the ser vices of Ywaste, which provides an eco-friendly methodology for the management of food waste through off-site composting. Ywaste has diver ted 5 600 tonnes of waste from landfill in the past 11 years. Healthy soils are fundamental to sur vival, seeing as they are essential for healthy plant growth, nutrition, water filtration, and also help to regulate the climate and store carbon.
