Have you seen a new sticker on the espresso machine at your local cafe? If it’s the Ground to Ground logo it means the cafe owner is happy to give away used coffee grounds, meaning –
* Free nitrogen boost for your compost!
** Making use of an abundant local resource!
*** Diversion of landfill, so curbing methane gas pollution!
Transition Hobsons Bay has been asking cafes to participate in the Ground to Ground program. Since we started in Williamstown & Yarraville, the earliest adopters have been:
•Feedback Cafe & The Corner Store in Yarraville
•The Picnic Table & Novel Kitchen in Williamstown
A google map of participating cafes (including some in the eastern suburbs) is available at groundtoground.org or Ground to Ground Map
Get along to one of these cafes and support their efforts to divert coffee grounds from landfill*!
Most likely if a cafe doesn’t have a magnet up, its because they don’t know about the program…
So ask Transition Hobsons Bay for a Ground to Ground magnet for YOUR favourite local cafe. (transitionhb@gmail.com)
* We suggest picking it up in a bucket.
Transition Hobsons Bay wants to develop a community composting scheme along the lines of Glenda Lindsay’s fabulous Compost Mates. Neighbours organise a roster to pick up all food scraps from a local cafe. Individuals compost at home. Ground to Ground is envisaged to be the first stage of this scheme that all cafes and everyone can participate in.
Cheers to the Cappucino