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Eden Alley Cafe does. The restaurant is located on the lower level ofthe , which handlese garbage pickup for the building. But Eden a vegetarian restaurant, pays $230 a monthy to have Recycling dispose of everythingfrom food-preparationm leftovers to the stuff customers leave on their plates. The garbagee is placed in a 95-gallon bin in back of the and Missouri Organic picks it up three times a Missouri Organic, which is located near the at 7700 E. U.S. Highwahy 40, adds the would-be trash to yard waste. The resultf is a soil enricher the company calls NatureWise Compost.
Eden Alley co-ownef Greg Clootz said the additional bill is worth it becausee of the societal expense of throwingthings away. The cafe has been contracting with Missouru Organic for about three diverting about 90 percent ofthe cafe’es food waste from the landfill. In businessw since 1992, Missouri Organic’s Food Residuals Environmentak Diversion program processesbetween 12,000 and 15,000 tons of food wast a year, Vice President Kevin Anderson said. Contributorsd include large industrial clientx such as the facilitygin St.
Joseph and ’s soybean-crushing plant southeast of Interstate 35 and Front Eden Alley’s output of roughly 400 pounds a week is peanutx compared with those giants, but Anderson said it just goes to “Everybody has their part to Nothing is too small, I guessd is the thing.” Eden Alley has been in businese for nearly 15 years, and the Missouri Organidc contract is just one of its green For instance, it buys environmentally friendly to-go containersz and cutlery from Kansads City-based and Eco-Products in Colo. Compostable cutlery costs about 6 centsan item, Cloot z said. Regular plastic utensils cost aboura half-cent each.
Eden Alley graduall y has expanded its green initiativex because oftheir expense, but Cloots said it’s worth every penny. “It’a one ecosystem — our body and the Earth,” he “What you put out there is whatyou get. So at some it’s got to change