Hospital Kitchen Waste Helps Grow Local Crops: ThedaCare Saving 30 Tons of Waste from Going to Landfills This Year
When kitchen employees at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah and ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Appleton cut and prepare food, they place the scraps into a special container used for composting at Riverview Gardens, an urban farm in downtown Appleton. The move saves 30 tons of food annually from going into local landfills, said Maggie Hintz-Polzin, RN, ThedaCare [...Read More]