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Pilot program in St. Louis airport aims to recycle food leftovers

Published Sept. 12, 2012
By
Shauna Blackmon Contributor
Grant Cochrane

Dive summary:

  • For the next three months, four restaurants in Lambert Airport in St. Louis will be collecting food waste and turning it into compost for farms and gardens.
  • The project is funded by a grant from the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
  • The four participating restaurants make up 30% of the airports food and beverage operations.

From the article:

A pilot program under way at Lambert Airport in St. Louis seeks to reduce waste from leftover food.

The airport and food and beverage concessionaire HMSHost are partnering on a three-month pilot program. They're using a grant from the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. ...

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