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Trash
Audit
This audit was conducted by Community Recycling at the West Hollywood Whole Foods Store in January 2003 prior to the supermarket composting program.
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21-Hour Sample of Trash Compactor
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Mixed
Refuse
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Sorting
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Shrink Product
within date code that could have been given to a food bank or
sold at a deep discount. |
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A
good washing and these were reusable.
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Meat Shrink Product within date code that could have been given to a food bank or sold at a deep discount. Annualized Loss $21,900.00 |
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This
product could be recycled through a meat renderer.
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Cardboard is worth 5.5 cents a pound. = 48 Tons A Year In Lost Revenue |
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Clear,
clean film plastics are recyclable.
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Short-dated
persihables can go to food bank.
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Unsaleable
bakery items can go to food bank, or be unwrapped and composted.
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Waxed
cardboard is also compostable.
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Compostable
Green Waste
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Trash
represents less than 20% of what was in the compactor.
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