The Coffee Cup

Composting begins in earnest at Portland Farmers Market at Portland State University
The market wants to retrain people to properly dispose of the bags, boxes, cups, forks, spoons and other packaging they collect as they sip espresso and eat their way past local farmers peddling freshly picked chard and radishes. All that garbage adds up. The PSU site generates roughly 13 tons of garbage over a season of Saturdays. And until now, very little of it was composted or recycled: just …

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