Blog tagged as Local Economy

CERO COOPERATIVE CAPABILITIES STATEMENT 2020

04.23.2021 10:50 AM - Comment(s)

CERO COMPOSTING AT DEMOCRACY BREWING: A CONVERSATION WITH FOUNDER AND WORKER-OWNER JAMES RASZA

A cornerstone of CERO’s identity, besides closing the food loop by recycling food waste at local farms, is our status as a worker-owned cooperative business. Worker-owned cooperatives differ from traditional businesses in that they are owned by the people who work at them, rather than by one or a fe...

04.20.2021 11:24 AM - Comment(s)

HOW-TO: COMPOSTING AT HOME IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

By Maya Gaul

During this unprecedented time, stay-at-home orders and social distancing have increased the demand for more healthy and self-reliant measures in our homes. These include reducing trips to the store or for takeout food (and waiting in long lines!) in favor of making home-cooked meals and growing gar...

04.20.2021 11:22 AM - Comment(s)

COMPOSTING IN THE COVID-19 ERA

By Maya Gaul

Organic materials, mostly food waste, make up at least 30% of the trash Americans throw away. When sent to landfills and incinerators, this material breaks down and emits toxic methane, one of the most deadly greenhouse gases. A far better alternative destination for this material is processing faci...

04.20.2021 11:21 AM - Comment(s)

FOOD WASTE RECYCLING AT A LARGE-SCALE FOOD MANUFACTURER: A CONVERSATION WITH ARROW FARMS DISILVA FRUIT

By Casey Lynch

The US economy is set to change drastically as dialogue and activism around climate justice and the ecological health of our planet enter the mainstream. Massachusetts has already begun important transitional work in multiple ways, notably through its Commercial Food Waste Disposal Ban. The Food Was...

04.20.2021 11:18 AM - Comment(s)

PRESS RELEASE - FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING

By Lor Holmes

CERO Cooperative, Inc. (CERO), a Massachusetts worker-owned cooperative corporation, has completed a consensual balance-sheet restructuring with its lenders involving a debt-for-equity swap and other loan modifications. As a result, CERO has reduced indebtedness by approximately $430,000 and s...

04.20.2021 11:05 AM - Comment(s)

COMPOSTING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

By Maya Gaul

Composting is an essential service! We are on the front lines collecting organic waste throughout the city of Boston and its surrounding areas. With the spread of this new COVID19 virus, different branches of society have collectively been working together from afar to support different member...

04.20.2021 10:59 AM - Comment(s)

NEW LIFE FOR FOOD WASTE: CERO CO-OP TURNS SCRAPS INTO PRODUCTIVE COMPOST

By Maya Gaul

Originally written and published In EdibleBoston by Michael Floreak.

Photos by Michael Piazza

04.20.2021 10:58 AM - Comment(s)

CERO COMPOSTING AT SPAULDING HOSPITAL

By Karen Urdaneta

CERO started with a mission to provide a high-quality composting service to the local community and to be part of an equitable employee-owned business that cares deeply for its clients. We are proud to say we now have over 70 customers that are dedicated to helping the planet and their business by b...

04.20.2021 10:56 AM - Comment(s)

CERO COMPOSTING AT MEI MEI RESTAURANT

By Karen Urdaneta

CERO has the privilege of working with many great businesses in the Boston area; one of those businesses being Mei Mei. Mei Mei is both a hip restaurant and food truck catering business serving Chinese- American cuisine made with locally and sustainably sourced produce. Mei Mei, which...

04.20.2021 10:55 AM - Comment(s)

BIOPLASTICS: NOT AS GREEN AS THEY MIGHT SEEM

By Maya Gaul

A PREVIOUSLY EXCITING DEVELOPMENT THAT FALLS SHORT IN COMPOST PERFORMANCE & PRACTICAL USE

Bioplastics were an exciting alternative to traditional plastics when first introduced to the sustainability and waste diversion market. Because they are produced with minimal fossil fuels and tout full comp...

04.16.2021 08:40 AM - Comment(s)

MARTHA STEWART FEATURES CERO COOP

By Maya Gaul

At CERO Cooperative, trash is never really trash. The Massachusetts-based business -- which was recently awarded the Green America’s People & Planet Award -- collects food scraps from local food businesses and turns them into compost. The compost is then delivered to local fa...

04.16.2021 08:39 AM - Comment(s)