This project has been in the works for a long time and today we have finally launched our crowdfunding campaign to buy a commercial compost machine that will allow us to deliver our products in compostable packaging and turn used containers and food waste into soil for local farms.
Since early 2019, we've sold a variety of plant-based organic products in our store but we now want to go further with our mission to develop a waste free delivery service. With your help, we will buy an industrial compost machine and implement a system for taking back and composting all food and packaging waste produced by our sales. We will compost this waste onsite and give nutritious compost to local farms we collaborate with. They can use it as fertiliser or simply to improve the quality of their soil, so they can continue producing healthy organic food.
We call this system the Circular Grocery Shopping Model and Little Plant Pantry will be the first store to implement and test it. But for this to be successful, the active participation of all actors in the supply chain is needed, including the community we serve.
The compost machine will allow us to convert the waste of 100 households into 700 liters of stabilized, ready-to-use organic compost every week but it also provides us with the opportunity to make a serious contribution to the city by preventing not only our own food and packaging waste from ending up in landfill or incineration but also the waste of our customers and the community.
Having this machine closes the loop in our circular grocery shopping model and brings us closer to our ultimate goal of creating an urban zero-waste ecosystem.
We have some wonderful awards for those that contribute to our campaign. And being the time of year that it is, any of these awards can be given as a gift by inputting the personβs name you wish to give the gift to when making the donation or purchasing the award.
Thank you for all your support and feedback over the past two years. Weβre excited to be entering this next phase with our waste free delivery service.
Having this machine closes the loop in our circular grocery shopping model and brings us closer to our ultimate goal of creating an urban zero-waste ecosystem.
Acknowledgements
This campaign has only been possible with the help of the following people who have all volunteered their time and energy to make this happen:
Zuza Kurzawa, Feef Anthony, Angela, Domonkos Molnar, Bernadett Suhaj, Justin Baker, Annekee Wagemaker, Jennifer Sun, Stefanie Behrendt, Danika Moore, Sylvia Huang and Honorine Schaeffer.
We sincerely thank everybody for their efforts. A special thank you to Feef and Zuza who have carried this campaign through from the beginning to the end and have devoted an immense amount of work to it. It could not and would not have happened without you all!
