By Justin Gardner | The Free Thought Project
San Paulo, Brazil — A shopping mall in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is showing how these hubs of consumerism can be turned into a force for sustainability.
They are taking all of the organic waste generated from the mall’s food court and turning it into compost for growing vegetables and herbs on the rooftop. Almost 900 pounds of food waste is generated there every day, and it’s all being turned into new food on location.
Employees at the mall are the main beneficiaries of this novel program. They pitch in by tending to the garden, and in return they can harvest the pesticide-free produce to take home.
That’s 900 pounds of waste not being trucked off to a dump site, instead being used to create food for employees while reducing the environmental impact.
“We notice that people waste a huge amount of food. So beyond our objective of creating organic compost, we use this to create new food. It is a cycle in which we make food out of food. This is what it means to be sustainable,” said Cicero Evangelista, in charge of recycling at the shopping mall.
With thanks to Bonus Insider.
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Wonderful idea
Awesome one…Want to try it at my own backyard…?
Boom!
Super cool!
Would be better to give it to the homeless and poor or not buy so much, or grow so much.
Are there hungry people? Nice idea though
Great
Kylie Benson
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Bravo! !
fabulous
Hey Westfield, AMP and the other Australian shopping complexes here’s a way of growing organic veegetables AND contributing to lessening green house gas emissions due to less garbage dumping. While making the compost you could generate electricity from the methane too!
Like Like Like! We have the resources to be able to do this. Hopefully in time they will follow 🙂
Penomenal. So great that they are putting it to use instead of tossing it.
I saw a documentary about how much food is wasted world wide. Some time ago it was $262 billion. They showed how they took the wasted food from the Buffet of ONE Las Vegas Casino and fed 3000 hogs with it. They took you from filet minion to the hog slop and back to bacon and eggs. Very efficient; but I think the Brazilian plan will feed more people.
To bad about the monsanto deal part..
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Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
‘Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Some say it’s just a part of it,
We’ve got to fulfill the book.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KKhHpYb0yU
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Awesome!
Love it!
Wonderful work being done.
Awesome idea
uber cool….. way to live…:)
Cristiane Ribeiro Correa S
Wonderful
Brilliant
Awesome come on nature
Rebel Rock
Great idea.
What a good idea
Ticia Arruda this is sweet!
awesome idea so much food is wasted
thats d real way to live,that living style will help in reducing green house effect
simple living
Magic!
What a Great idea!
Good idea
This IS awsome! Sending some fresh green lurve their way! xx
This is my Sons dream farm !!
Execelant, we also should start in hotels &restaurant
Romulo De Souza
Great news!
Wonderful! I recycle all my organics.
Great minds great idea
Laurie Fader
Love this! What a great way to recycle.
This is a fantastic idea, and just the sort of thing we should all be doing to help the planet
Wow…awesome!
Wow, so awesome.
i better other countries never see the stuff we do, or invent in the uk,,,,WHY…cos we do nothing…….other countries seem to be so more advanced than us
I expect it can be done in my country indonesia,we have so many mall here.