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You’ll find a garden full of edible flowers, herbs and tomatoes on-site at this Done To Your Taste Catering in Kamas, Utah. They work hard to include local ingredients in their menus, including produce from a local Oakley farm. They even capture water in their four rain barrels to hydrate their gardens! Their garden’s harvest is revealed above in Eileen’s “Garden to Glass” cocktail. Love your thinking, Done To Your Taste Catering!

How many manufacturers think Cradle-to-Grave? In an effort to reduce e-waste, Skull Candy has launched a reverse logistics, up-cycling program to offer a second life to product returns and expired products. They are currently 65% of the way to reaching their goal to divert one million pounds of e-waste from landfills. Join them on their circular journey – send any old headphones or earbuds, regardless of brand, to be refurbished or recycled. To say thank you, they will even discount your next Skull Candy order. Thank you Skull Candy for this amazing cradle-to-grave commitment!

We’re all guilty of food waste, and now our environment is begging us to reduce it. Summit County’s bars and restaurants waste is 66% organics and residential waste is 36% organics. Reducing food waste is ranked in the top ten solutions to mitigating climate change in an article by the World Resources Institute. Paul Hawken in Drawdown ranks reduced food waste as #3 out of 100 important ways to reverse global warming by 2050. Hawken states, “The food we waste is roughly 8% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. People who need food are not getting it, and the food that is not getting consumed is heating up the planet.”

We are extremely fortunate in Summit County to have ways to donate food and compost. Contact the Christian Center of Park City (CCPC) for ways to donate uneaten food for those in need; subscribe to Momentum to compost business or event food waste or Spoil to Soil for residential. Or, start composting at your home with a backyard bin or electric composter. 

Change is not easy, it’s certainly easy to refuse to do. But how long can our resilient Earth stand up to our human actions? Make it your goal today to start a food waste plan in 2023 for your home and workplace. Our community will thank you for it.  

Mary Closser
Recycle Utah Education Director

All Seasons Adventures knows the importance of providing water to their summer customers. The higher price point of plastic-free alternatives has always been a barrier, until this summer. They reworked their pricing and are very excited to finally switch to a resealable, aluminum water bottle for their 100+ customers on the Weber River, and more. Looking forward, they hope to assist more local businesses to do the same, possibly with bulk order collaboration! Contact Caroline for more information.

The Park City Library is currently working on the Sustainable Libraries Initiative certificate program. One initiative they launched last year is the Sustainability Resource Center, inspiring awareness and action through unique displays, books and creative tools to help our residential and business community gain knowledge on climate change, economics and sustainability. Learn more about Park City Library’s Sustainability Resource Center here.

Food waste is an enormous issue for restaurants, especially in our tourist town where many people do not take leftovers. Este Pizza Park City is thrilled to know that any leftover food at Este is taken care of in a sustainable way. Training staff is simple due to the comprehensive signage that Momentum, the hauler, provides. The compost is efficiently collected 1x/week in slow seasons and 2x/week during busy. Contact Carissa with questions.