Roger and I are welcoming a new addition to our cafe family, CLOey. CLOey is a Closed Loop Organic composting unit. We invested in her (yes, you can't help but anthropomorph it into an employee, and one of the hardest working I might add) in order reduce overall waste in the cafe industry and also to manage our waste cleanly and efficiently. CLOey is a very neat and tidy compost bin and she will happily chomp her way through vegetable, meat and bones all day long. She gurgles, beeps and whirs gently and because her digestive system is temperature controlled, in 24 hours, she produces amazingly rich, dry fertilizer that is as powerful as chook manure. We already have a few people around town lined up for CLOey's product and we are happy to share.
These compost units are all the rage in city cafes that are striving to be zero waste businesses. They have industrial CLOeys but we only needed a domestic version because we do not generate as much waste as I imagine they do. However, it's a start and we feel happy that not only are we using our cafe scraps and leftovers wisely on behalf of our customers, but we are also keeping our kitchen clean and hygenic.
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