Hillside Solutions

Of the 1,500 households using Compost Club, this award is about our favorite user. And that hands-down goes to @thesustainablesuburbanites. Morgan Rye-Craft, her husband Ean, Morgan’s sister-in-law Reneelynn, and her husband Cade are a bold group of earth-loving folks. Their mission? Live in the suburbs of Omaha while living a zero-waste lifestyle and start a Facebook community to show the rest of us how we can do the same. That Facebook group now has 31,000 followers worldwide. A review on the FB page sums it up best, “This woman is sharing an experience I can relate to: how to care for the environment in our own little ways without the extremes of moving off the grid or only living with or around people who are quite similar to her in thinking. She’s lighthearted as well as serious.” Truly an inspiration to us all. That’s why we gave them 2023’s Compost Clubber Award.

Hey, pumpkin! Instead of sending your pumpkins to the landfill, partner with us to send the material to our commercial composting facility, where it's turned into nutrient-dense soil that winds up in gardens and farms around our community. . Avoid the "scary" consequences: 🎃 Putting off methane gas 🎃 Shortening the lifespan of our landfill 🎃 Creating toxic sludge

🎃🍬 Got leftover Halloween candy wrappers? Don’t let them haunt the landfill! 👻 Here in Omaha, you can recycle those pesky wrappers through the Hefty® Orange "Renew" Bag program. . Just toss your candy wrappers, plastic bags, and other hard-to-recycle items into the orange bag, and set it out with your regular trash collection. 🌍♻️ . ✅ How it works: 1. Place your candy wrappers, chip bags, and other flexible plastics in the Hefty® Renew Bag. 2. Tie it up and set it in your curbside bin alongside your normal trash. 3. The bag will be separated at the landfill for proper recycling! . Let’s transform Halloween waste into something useful and showcase Omaha’s commitment to sustainability!🍬♻️🎃 . Keep Omaha Beautiful Recycle Guide: https://lnkd.in/gpTzrF2B . Hefty Energy Bag Resource Guide: https://lnkd.in/gvRqXwNa . Got a "spooky" amount of soft-plastic waste? Contact a Sustainability Consultant about commercial recycling today. . Samantha Nieman 402-917-0462 samantha@hillside.solutions

We’ve found that 1 in 4 Omaha businesses want to recycle and compost, but report they simply don’t have the space for it. That’s a result of something we call designing for the landfill model. See this enclosure here. It was designed to only hold one dumpster. Because of the lack of space for multiple containers, it prioritizes landfilling. The good news is that there’s group of designers and buildings that are creating spaces for the zero waste model. That’s exactly what Kiewit Luminarium Luminarium did. We at Hillside Solutions began talks with Luminarium 3 years before the doors ever opened. We collaborated with their design team at @HDR and Luminarium staff to accomplish 5 goals....

In 2022, Dundee Bank - Omaha hosted a pumpkin drop where 25 cubic yards were collected and turned into nutrient-dense soil. Come spring 2023, soil-filled gardens, landscapes, and farms around our community will help reverse the effects of climate change. Best of all, Hillside Solutions has a year-round program to compost your food waste and get some soil back yourself. Sign up at https://lnkd.in/gUV8z4Y6

We have a 1,500-household-strong subscription program called Compost Club. It allows residential folks to drop off compostables at over 6o sites around the Omaha area. Subscribers also get credits to redeem free compost. We noticed many of our subscribers never redeemed their compost. So we began to give them the yearly option of donating those credits to non-profit gardens with which we’re partnered. Those gardens, in turn, use the free compost to grow organic food and feed members of our community who may have a difficult time accessing organic food from a place like Whole Foods. It’s an amazing program. So, we decided to highlight one of those receiving gardens with an award. It's a sort of “who used the free compost best” type of thing. And of them all, we had to celebrate what the @theunionomaha Club did with their Abudance Garden in 2023. What was that? … They gave away all the food every Saturday to whoever showed up. And since they are nestled in the middle of a food desert, you just couldn’t ask for a better use of their resources. Imagine going to a grocery store and paying $8 for a delicious heirloom tomato or going to the Abundance Garden and getting that for free. We absolutely love this.

🎃 Most of the 1.3 BILLION pounds of pumpkins land in the landfill. Spooky thought, right? Jumpscare, for real. So, here are 3 Reasons Pumpkins Don’t Go Landfilling: 👉 Emits Awful Gases: It takes pumpkins + gourds up to 2 decades to break down, meanwhile putting out a potent greenhouse gas - methane - which contributes to global warming. 👉 Full of water: Pumpkins = full of water. When water combines with plastics + other yucks in the landfill it creates a toxic sludge, leachate, which leaks into our waterways, causing potential damage to humans, animals and the environment. 👉 Take up Space: Facts are facts. Pumpkins are bulky, and tossing in the landfill takes up space. Historically, the poor and vulnerable are picked as neighbors for such things. It’s not cool. Our team would love for you to host a "pumpkin drop-off site." It's as simple as us dropping off a large container, the community filling it, and us picking up the material in our trucks. Pumpkins and gourds will be given to piggies to eat or turned into nutrient dense soil at our commercial composting facility. Interested? ☎️ Shoot us a DM or reach out to Samantha directly. Samantha Nieman ☎️ 402-917-0462 📬 samantha@hillside.solutions . . . #Compost #Pumpkin #DontLandfillPumpkins #RecyclePumpkins #PumpkinDrop #Omaha #KeepOmahaBeautiful #Beautiful #Fall #EcofriendlyFall

Urban farmers, Barn Girls Farms, complete the Circular Food cycle by taking "micro" to a whole new level - growing micro greens in-house and composting food waste & plant remnants with us. Talk about super-sizing the goodness. They're not just gardening goods, they're sowing seeds for a sustainable future.

As the nights begin to cool, so can you. Whether saving your garden's bounty or shopping local foods seasonally, be a little eco-friendly to adjust to the new change in season. 😎 ✨ . A few ideas here: 🍁 Canning Veggies and drying herbs teaches food waste 🍁 Support local farmers and the economy by purchasing local produce, which avoids the need for transporting long-distance 🍁 Bring bagged yard waste to our Soil Dynamics, and we'll turn it into nutrient-dense soil through Compost Club . Want more information? Dig in: https://lnkd.in/gu3uyrik

The @OmahaCommunityFoundation builds connections between people, ideas, and funding. With a deep understanding of local needs, the nonprofits working on solutions, and the philanthropic channels that can help achieve their missions, OCF serves as a catalyst for good and gets even better as they partner with us for their single-stream recycling services. #OmahaCommunityFoundation #OmahaFoundation #Recycling #OfficeRecycling #Nebraska #KeepOmahaBeautiful #WasteManagement #EcofriendlyOffice