Once it's collected and taken to get processed it comes back in the form of soil and is later sold as bagged compost at the market or used on area farms. The waste collected at the market actually comes full circle. "They're helping us find new ways to reduce our waste," she said. She says composting is getting them closer to their goal of becoming a zero-waste facility by 2020. Tasha Kenard is the Executive Director at the Nashville Farmers' Market. "So instead of a traditional plastic there are plastic cups that are made of corn and we can take and process those and turn them back into a soil product," he said. They've even started to use utensils that can be broken down. Just since April the Nashville Farmers' Market has composted nearly 80,000 pounds. Because they don't have a place to process it on their own," he said. However, you can use this SKY CHART to see what stars are currently above you, based on your location on the Earth. And that's going to give places like the Farmers' Market or hotels, or restaurants, grocery stores an outlet for that. "In a perfect world everyone would take care of their own but we handle the commercial waist for the most part. Together, they are changing the way Nashville businesses collect and recycle. The Compost Company is the only fully-permitted commercial composting facility in Middle Tennessee.Ĭlay and Jeffery Ezell run the company, on a farm, located just outside Nashville in Ashland City. It can be treated instead of trashed," said Clay Ezell, Co-owner of The Compost Company. "Unofficially anything that was once alive is compostable. Once you're looking for compostable materials, you see them everywhere.
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