Two years at a Glance

Since our launch in 2019, and through education and persistence, we have managed to create a series of successful projects…

-We’ve seen a growth of climate-consciousness throughout the community in which 155 families are members of our compost program and 140 volunteers have lent us their helping hands. 

-Our compost program is already diverting 14 tons of food waste from the community away from landfills*. 

-We offer hands-on weekly workshops to middle and high school students on soil and our composting process. 

-We encourage and empower our team of high school student volunteers to share their compost knowledge on our Saturday weekly workshops offered to local organizations. 

-We’ve donated 6,754 reusable facemasks to people in low-income communities.

-We’ve sewn and printed locally from repurposed textiles 320 reusable shopping totes that have been donated to communities in need, spreading the importance to refuse single-use plastics and to reuse. 

-We’ve repurposed over 500 pounds of textiles into all sorts of reusable products: shopping totes, vegetable and lunch bags, aprons, etc.

-We’ve repurposed 2,500 t-shirts into shopping t-totes and we make them available to the community and vendors for free at the KB weekly saturday’s market. We stress the importance of stepping away from single use plastic bags and invite people to take a stand against them. 

-We’ve employed 8 women who were suffering from unemployment.

-We’ve offered free sewing workshop to mothers and teachers in Little Haiti.

-We’ve partnered with local NGO’s that are using our compost soil for their mangrove restoration projects. 

-We’ve implemented a high school internship program where students are creating campaigns to raise awareness on food, plastic and textile waste.

-We’ve implemented community-engagement programs that asked children and young adults to assess what they valued about the Earth and pledge to protect it.

-We provide a space for neighbors to offer sustainable programs to the community: KB Book swap, Share-the-boo reusing Halloween costumes, reusing Amazon envelopes, etc.

-We offer drop-off collections of no longer used home textiles and T-shirts.

-We offered a drop-off collection of single-use plastic containers to be reused by local non-profits to feed the homeless.

-We offer local farm products and honey at our Saturday’s farmers market tent, enforcing the need to shop local.

-We create all our signage from political campaigns. 

-We create our AZWC volunteer t-shirts  from second hand ones. 

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•Waste in landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the United States (15.1% of these emissions in 2019). The methane emissions from landfills in 2019 were approximately equivalent to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from more than 21.6 million passenger vehicles driven for one year or the CO2emissions from nearly 12.0 million homes’ energy use for one year. At the same time, methane emissions from MSW landfills represent a lost opportunity to capture and use a significant energy resource (https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-gas)