In the preparation and serving of the recent Harvest Dinner at Park Presbyterian Church, about 15 gallons of biodegradable materials were consciously collected and are being composted within a huge pile of leaves at Gerry Benedict’s composting yard.

 The Harvest Dinner materials separated included:

• Biodegradable  items
  • Preparation materials
    • Potato peeling from over 150 pounds of potatoes
    • Squash rinds
  • Uneaten Harvest Dinner plate and serving bowl scrapings
    • Dressing, Gravy, Some pork scraps,Butter pads …minus the tin foil wrapping, mashed potatoes, Rolls, Mixed vegetables,A variety of pies and crust, Milk,  Coffee, Applesauce, Cold slaw
  • Napkins
  • Paper place mates
  • Paper pie plates                                                                                                                               

 Recyclable items that were placed in the familiar ‘blue’ boxes:
Aluminum foil items, Metal cans, Plastic containers, Cardboard, Plastic bags

A year from now these materials will be growing vegetables or reintroduced into the manufacturing process and will NOT be moldering away and taking up space in one of our local landfills. 

Really clean is GREEN!

Gerry Benedict