The Packer
Instead of dumping more than 2,000 tons of organic material into a landfill this year, Houweling’s Nurseries Inc., Camarillo, Calif., recycled it.
The tomato grower has partnered with Oxnard, Calif.-based Agromin, a company that specializes in renewing organic material, according to a news release. In the first quarter of the year, Houweling’s sent 2,156 tons of organic material — leaves, vines, coco fiber, tomatoes — to Agromin, which turned it into compost, mulch, and soil conditioners.
By avoiding putting the material into a landfill, 367 tons of methane were kept from the atmosphere, according to the release. That is the equivalent of almost 7,000 tons of CO2 emissions.
