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Episode #47 Alex Thomas of CMA
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In Episode #47 of the Community Composting Podcast, O-Town's owner and founder Charlie speaks with Alex Thomas of CMA. If you didn't know, CMA stands for the Compost Manufacturing Alliance, and they are kind of a big deal. Alex works as a field scientist and special project coordinator with a focus on examining the fruits of our labor - the finished compost! CMA has a focus on the feedstock that brings food waste to composters, and verifies 'compostables' through field testing in a variety of scenarios.
What does it look like when compostable servicewear really breaks down in piles, and what does it look like when products fail? What does it mean to truly call a final product 'compost'? Are compostable products valuable to composters, or are we just doing a service to their manufacturers? All these topics and more are examined!
In the end, Alex and CMA want to make sure the right information to makes it to composters to empower their decisions behind choosing the feedstock they accept. Compostable servicewear continues to be a hot topic of conversation amongst composters, so if you are interested in hearing the nitty-gritty of it all, this episode is for you!
Please take the time to rate and subscribe so that we can keep busting out content!
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/charlie-pioli/support47 afleveringen
Manage episode 405646559 series 2870314
In Episode #47 of the Community Composting Podcast, O-Town's owner and founder Charlie speaks with Alex Thomas of CMA. If you didn't know, CMA stands for the Compost Manufacturing Alliance, and they are kind of a big deal. Alex works as a field scientist and special project coordinator with a focus on examining the fruits of our labor - the finished compost! CMA has a focus on the feedstock that brings food waste to composters, and verifies 'compostables' through field testing in a variety of scenarios.
What does it look like when compostable servicewear really breaks down in piles, and what does it look like when products fail? What does it mean to truly call a final product 'compost'? Are compostable products valuable to composters, or are we just doing a service to their manufacturers? All these topics and more are examined!
In the end, Alex and CMA want to make sure the right information to makes it to composters to empower their decisions behind choosing the feedstock they accept. Compostable servicewear continues to be a hot topic of conversation amongst composters, so if you are interested in hearing the nitty-gritty of it all, this episode is for you!
Please take the time to rate and subscribe so that we can keep busting out content!
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/charlie-pioli/support47 afleveringen
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