Compost tubs at Second Harvest Food Bank keep 7,000 pounds of waste from landfills, so far

Santa cruz Sentinel, January 22, 2010.

WATSONVILLE — The Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County not only helps the hungry, but is taking strides to help the environment, too.

Funding from Watsonville and Santa Cruz County has helped install tubs to convert the Food Bank”s kitchen scraps and spoiled produce into compost.

“It”s a nice partnership, because the food waste they were unable to use would end up in our landfill,” said Nancy Lockwood, environmental projects manager for the city of Watsonville. Read More >