Coffee grounds and eggshells often go into the trash. However, small pickup services offer another choice. They collect food scraps from homes, offices, and restaurants. Food scraps are food parts that people do not eat. (apnews.com)
Customers keep their scraps in a special bucket. A worker picks up the bucket each week. The scraps then go to a compost site. Compost is dark material made from old food and plants. It looks like soil and helps plants grow.
Scrap Soils is one example in Detroit. It offers weekly pickups for local homes and businesses. At one restaurant, workers save eggshells and old bread. They also save tomato tops and avocado skins. These scraps go into a special bin. Later, a pickup worker takes them away. (bridgemi.com)
This service helps people without a garden. They can compost without doing the work at home. Food in a dump can make methane. Methane is a gas that warms our planet. Composting keeps food out of dumps. It also returns useful plant food to the ground. (epa.gov)
