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40% NO TIME TO WASTE OF THE FOOD WE GROW OR BUY IS NEVER EATEN BUT HAULED TO LANDFILLS AND DUMPED AS FOOD SCRAPS. Did you know… The average family of four spends $1,800 every year on food they never eat. 2 It’s like buying 5 bags of groceries and throwing 2 away in the trash. 1 FOOD WASTE IS THE THIRD LARGEST GREENHOUSE GAS EMITTER ON THE PLANET. 3 JOIN THE ISLAND-WIDE CAMPAIGN TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE BY 50% BY 2030. TAKE THE PLEDGE TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE. VISIT IGIMV.ORG Here’s what you can do… Let’s create nutrient-rich, local compost for our food waste here on the Island. Put leftover fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, pasta, bread, dairy, meat, seafood, coffee, filters, tea bags, napkins, paper towels, egg and lobster shells into a food waste bucket for composting. Drop your bucket at any town “dump” for only $2 per 5-gallon bucket. See the Island map on the reverse side for food waste drop-off locations. ✘ ✘ 13 of Island food waste is shipped to mainland landfills and incinerators every year. MILLION POUNDS 1,2 Dana Gunders, Natural Resources Defense Council 3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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40%
NO TIME TO WASTE OF THE FOOD WE GROW OR BUY IS NEVER EATEN BUT HAULED TO LANDFILLS AND DUMPED AS FOOD SCRAPS.
Did you know…The average family
of four spends
$1,800 every year on food
they never eat.2
It’s like buying 5 bags of groceries and throwing 2 away in the trash.1
FOOD WASTE IS THE THIRD LARGEST GREENHOUSE GAS EMITTER ON THE PLANET. 3
JOIN THE ISLAND-WIDE CAMPAIGN TO REDUCE
FOOD WASTE BY 50% BY 2030.
TAKE THE PLEDGE TO REDUCE FOOD WASTE. VISIT IGIMV.ORG
Here’s what you can do…Let’s create nutrient-rich, local compost for our food waste here on the Island.Put leftover fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, pasta, bread, dairy, meat, seafood, coffee, filters, tea bags, napkins, paper towels,
egg and lobster shells into a food waste bucket for composting.
Drop your bucket at any town “dump” for only $2 per 5-gallon bucket.
See the Island map on the reverse side for food waste drop-off locations.
✘✘
13 of Island food waste is shipped to mainland landfills and incinerators every year.
MILLION POUNDS
1,2 Dana Gunders, Natural Resources Defense Council3Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
From Aquinnah to West Tisbury, from Chilmark to Oak Bluffs, from Edgartown to Vineyard Haven, together we’re building a regenerative, equitable food system on Martha’s Vineyard that
engages, informs, and integrates the community.
Although the information in this document has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement 00A00490 to, Island Grown Initiative, it has not been subjected to the Agency’s publications
review process and therefore, may not reflect the views of the Agency and no official endorsement should be inferred.
★ LOC AL DROP OFFS/ TRANSFER S TAT IONS
INDIAN HILLROAD
PANHANDLEROAD
ABEL’SHILL
BARNES
ROAD
COU
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RO
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EDGARTOWN-VINEYARD HAVEN ROAD
KATAMA RO
AD
CHAPPAQUIDDICK RD.
OLD
CO
UNTY
RO
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STATE ROAD
STATE ROAD
NORTH ROAD
MID
DLE ROAD
SOUTH ROAD
TEA LANE
TABOR
HOUSE RD.
HOUSE RD.
MEETING
MENEM
SHA
LIGHTHOUSE RD.
MOSHUP TRAIL
CROSS RD.
STAT
E ROADLA
MBERT’S COVE ROAD
LITCHFIELD RD.
EDGARTOWN – WEST TISBURY ROAD
VINEYARD HAVEN HARBOR
EDGARTOWNHARBOR Cape Poge
Bay
EdgartownGreat Pond
TisburyGreat Pond
Menemsha Pond
SquibnocketPond
SquibnocketPoint
Katama BayPocha Pond
Lago
o n Pon
d
Wasqu e Poin t
Chilmark Pond
WESTCHOP
EASTCHOP
CAPEPOGE
GAYHEAD
AQUINNAH
CHILMARK
North Tisbury
EDGARTOWN
OAKBLUFFS
WESTTISBURY
MENEMSHA
MV AIRPORT
LAKETASHMOO
Chappaquiddick
VINEYARD HAVEN
TISBURY
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Pick up a FREE countertop food waste bucket while supplies last at local drop offs/transfer stations and at Chappy Community Center, Thimble Farm, and West Tisbury Library.
