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The company that does the Compost is https://www.konacompost.com/, Heather Guidice. Check out the website. You can email her at info@konacompost.com. They are based in Yardley, PA.

Richmond,

There are people at Medford Leas that are interested in making compost for gardens. Please email me with the name of the company Pennswood uses. My email address is robertskay@yahoo.com. Thanks.

Thanks for your reply, Richmond. Pennswood Village appears to enjoy quite an expansive setting. I'll share its story with our green team.


Regards,


Rob Bowman

Seattle

Pennswood Village installed a stormwater capture system years ago. Here is the story: https://tospv.org/pennswoods-beautiful-meadow/ .


We have residents who volunteer to recycle aluminum, and discarded electronic devices. However as market values for recycled paper are low; we think our waste hauler burns it. We have a local company that collects and composts food waste for a fee, and returns the composted material for use on garden plots.

I, too, am interested in responses to this question. I am a new resident of a CCRC in Seattle and member of a "green team" of residents who are concerned with issues relating to sustainability. For the moment we're focused on how to dispose of food containers by residents as well as dining services and the health center--what to recycle, what to compost and what goes to landfill. We will soon turn our attention to larger matters such as green roofs, solar panels and rainwater recovery. Ours is an older building that may well be limited in what it can accommodate, and costs for such initiatives could be quite high. Nevertheless, conservation is an essential goal. When our team submits suggestions to our administration (which is generally forward-looking) it will be very helpful to know what other CCRCs have done. I thank interested respondents very much in advance for your thoughts.


Rob Bowman

Seattle

Have any of your CCRCs investigated or installed - solar panels, green roofs, or rainwater recovery systems?

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