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Compost à la Carte – de Circulaire Keuken door Le Compostier

Compost a la Carte

De koude wintermaanden staan weer voor de deur, een tijd om gezellig samen te zijn. Tijd dus om een gezellig diner te plannen met je lief of met je familie!

Bij Restaurant As en Scandinavian Embassy kun je heerlijk eten en als je nu een diner boekt bij deze lokale voedselpioniers help je daar ook mee om de stad te verduurzamen. Beide restaurants gebruiken een wormenhotel van onze collega Le Compostier om hun GFT-afval te verwerken tot mooie wormencompost.

De compost wordt gebruikt voor voedselproductie in de stad. Als je nu een diner bekt maak je het mogelijk dat meer restaurants een wormenhotel kunnen uitproberen.

Restaurant As en Scandinavian Embassy gebruiken de beste ingrediënten van lokale producten en werken naar een circulaire bedrijfsvoering.

Ondersteun deze ambitie en boek nu nog jouw exclusieve diner via de crowdfunding op:

www.voorjebuurt.nl/projects/wormenhotel

 

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Week 4, The Community Compost School: The Circular Economy Hackathon

 

A BIG thank you to all who took part in the Green Living Lab’s Circular Economy Hackathon, where circular economy ideas, kind to people and planet, were hatched by enthusiastic hackers in the dome!

Enactus VU hosted the event as part of our Community Compost School programme. Enactus president Hanneke van Setten told us how positive social impact & sustainability are central values for their enterprises. We heard about the new Enactus compost collection enterprise, incubated by the Green Living Lab, where students will work together to create value from organic waste in the city. Viewing waste as a resource for value creation is central to circular economy thinking.

We heard from Rowin Snijder about StadsOogst, a circular economy co-operative that he recently set up with partner Chris Mueller, The StadsOogst (City Harvest) team make potting soil from compost made in the city & from waste materials from urban food production. The resulting potting soil will be used to grow food in the city, for the city.

Luana Carretto, founder of Taste Before You Waste, shared her motivations & experience of setting up a circular economy initiative that is focused on preventing urban food waste. By creating & serving healthy, delicious vegan food from food waste, TBYW shows us how a healthy diet, a healthy local food system & a healthy local economy are connected. Taste Before You Waste is now to be found in other cities & towns & offers educational food waste workshops to inform children & their parents how to prevent food waste. Taste Before You Waste are looking for more food waste heroes to help them with their mission to prevent food waste in the city, so if you’d like to help out just get in touch!

Knowledge & Innovation Manager, Shyaam Ramkumar from Circle Economy explained what circular economy means & the importance of systems thinking in designing sustainable products & business models. Shyaam’s examples of innovative local & international circular products & business models really inspired guests – thank you Shyaam!

Then it was on to the Hackathon Challenge! Enactus VU challenged guests to work in teams to think of a circular economy idea that could be applied locally & then to pitch it to our jury. After 4 passionate pitches the judges chose the winning idea, ‘The Magic Lightbulb’, a repair service focused on connecting younger & older generations. The winning team received a Dopper water bottle each, donated by Green Office VU.

We have 2 workshops left on our Community Compost School programme – 25 November & 9th December & everyone is welcome to join us. For info & to reserve your place please get in touch at info@greenlivinglab.org

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