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1 The Green dining alliance
A program of St. Louis Earth Day

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3 The GDA Core Concepts Styrofoam Ban Single Stream Recycling Phase in Energy Efficient Lighting Set Waste Diversion Goals

4 Above and Beyond: Energy/Water Efficiency
LEED Certified Water Reduction Solar Panels

5 Above and Beyond: Urban Farms
Pollinator Plants Bee-houses Chickens

6 Above and Beyond: Urban Farms
Vertical Aeroponic Towers Heirloom Tomatoes Fruit Trees and Melons

7 Above and Beyond: Traditional Farms
Goats and Cows Greenhouses Acres of Crops

8 Above and Beyond: Composting
Self Composting Commercial Composting Composting on the Farm

9 Composting and the EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge:
America wastes nearly 50% of their food. 1 in 7 Americans are food insecure. Diverting food waste into healthy compost helps to creates more food. The EPA set a goal to eliminate 50% of food waste by by encouraging institutions, restaurants, and grocery stores to follow the Food Recovery Hierarchy.

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11 Food Recovery and Climate Change
Food waste accounts for 18% of the waste-stream sent to landfills. Organic material decomposes in landfills through anaerobic digestion, creating methane in the process. 18% of methane emissions come from landfills. Methane is a greenhouse gas with 25 times the warming potential of CO2, although it doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere, it packs a heavy punch. This is a solvable problem.

12 Above and Beyond: GDA and Food Recovery
GDA restaurants are encouraged to compost, but there aren’t many options for commercial composting in St. Louis. Over 90 cities, including San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, offer curbside municipal composting, while others, like Cambridge and Austin, have begun pilot programs to test the system. Providing infrastructure would help make the choice easy for restaurants, grocery stores, institutions, and households. What to do in the meantime? Start a pile, and ask your favorite restaurants to start a composting program!

13 Recycling On the Go

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15 Sources us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx to-major-city.html

16 A quick game:

17 Contacts: Bob Henkel St. Louis Earth Day Program Director stlouisearthday.org Jenn DeRose Green Dining Alliance Program Manager greendiningalliance.org


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