Santa Cruz County getting new compost center
June 15, 2018
“Composting is a great example of the goal to recover, reuse and recycle,” Shaw said during a launch ceremony on Wednesday for the center, known as Compost Cats South..."
Compost center delivers food for Community Food Bank
June 14, 2018
"We've done this whole project with the fresh produce association and they don't want to do that any more then we want to see that happen so we are looking at the end of a lot of that dumping" - Chet Phillips
UA's Compost Cats open center in Santa Cruz County
June 14, 2018
"The University of Arizona has teamed up Santa Cruz County to open the area's first compost center next to Rio Rico High..."
Compost Cats using 100K in grants for compost operation in Santa Cruz County
"Compost Cats is developing the operation 'to compost the roughly 8,000 tons of produce from the bi-national produce industry currently ending up in Southern Arizona landfills every year,' according to a Compost Cats press release..."
EPA recognizes University of Arizona for diverting food scraps from landfill
April 05, 2016
"The University of Arizona has received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) award for "outstanding efforts" in food waste recycling and recovery, with students, food service staff, and university leaders working with the Tohono O'odham Nation's San Xavier Co-operative Farm and the City of Tucson to bump food recovery by 1,232% in one year..."
University of Arizona's Compost Cats recognized by EPA
March 31, 2016
"The student organization was recognized with the EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge award for diverting more than 3.4 million pounds of organic waste into compost in 2015, and more than 10.4 million pounds since its inception as an organization five years ago..."
Tucson Schools partner with U. of Arizona for compost pilot
February 09, 2016
"The program is designed to deal with waste from increased usage of fruits and vegetables..."