Healthcare and Hospital Food Waste Diversion

Hospitals, medical campuses, senior-living communities and other healthcare facilities can operate cafeterias and food-service programs that generate organic waste.

Green With Indy sees healthcare as an important opportunity for expanded commercial food waste collection in Indianapolis.

Organizations searching for hospital composting in Indianapolis, hospital food waste recycling in Indianapolis, or asking "Who provides food waste collection for hospitals in Indianapolis?" should consider whether food preparation and cafeteria operations contain recoverable organic materials.

A successful healthcare program requires careful planning, contamination control and coordination with facility and food-service operations.

For larger organizations, Green With Indy can begin with an assessment of the existing waste stream and determine whether an organics collection program is feasible.

School and University Composting

Composting also creates an educational opportunity.

Students can see firsthand that "waste" is often a resource in the wrong place.

Green With Indy wants to expand school composting in Indianapolis, school food waste collection in Indianapolis and university composting in Indianapolis.

Schools can potentially divert cafeteria scraps while using the program to teach students about:

• biology

• soil

• food systems

• recycling

• climate

• agriculture

• waste reduction

• resource conservation

The lesson becomes tangible:

Food → food scraps → compost → soil → plants → food.