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Category Archives: Business
Post-Consumer Food Permit (DEQ Type III)
We are thrilled to announce that on 6/16/11 our post-consumer food waste permit was approved by DEQ! (A post-consumer food waste permit allows a composter to accept both food prep fruits and veggies plus any food from a plate that … Continue reading
Trademarked!
We received official notice today that the Dirt Hugger trademark application has been approved and allowed! The Dirt Hugger name and logo are now on the way to being registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office. A huge thank … Continue reading
Food Scraps Pilot Update
A couple of weeks ago we attended the Hood River City Council meeting to deliver a mid-term update on the food scraps pilot program. We had our first curbside compost customer meeting in December with Riverside Grill’s green team, who … Continue reading
Sold Out! (for now)
Every start-up dreams of creating a new product, bringing it to market and selling through orders in blockbuster fashion. While we can’t claim sales figures rivaling the iPhone, we did manage to sell out of the first three windrows of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Composting
Tagged entrepreneurship, selling out, supply & demand, trommel screen
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Border Crossing
Today kicks off this weekend’s Spring Clean-Up event for the cities of White Salmon and Bingen, WA. During the event residents can bring waste and recyclables (including compostables this year!) to the Bingen transfer station for a mere $5 suggested donation. Today also … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Composting, Events, The Gorge
Tagged allied waste, bingen, community pride weekend, composting washington state, insitu, results, spring clean-up, white salmon
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The Best “Trash Sort” Yet!
When the garbage truck rolled up filled with food scraps today a dualing sense of excitement and horror shot through me. I was thinking of how great it is this material is not going to the landfill, but simultaneously how … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Composting
Tagged contamination, food scraps collection, food scraps composting
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“Move Beyond the Pilot…”
“…and into the mainstream.” That was the opening statement, theme, and challenge laid out by U of O Professor Robert Young at the Compostable Summit last week. He was speaking to a mixed audience of private and public influentials including Coca-Cola, Starbucks, International … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Composting, Policy
Tagged allied waste, burgerville, coca cola, composting, DEQ, environmental policy, international paper, john kitzhaber, lean path, pilot projects, portland metro, professor robert young, starbucks, university of oregon, waste prevention, waste reduction
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Machinery Madness
March is typically full of madness and this year was no exception. In the past three weeks we have been running more machinery than any small start-up ever should. It all began with a new DH record, 450 tons of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Composting
Tagged business start-up, composting, composting machinery, front loader, heavy machinery, kerr contractors, machinery
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Good Press
There’s been some good press on Dirt Hugger lately. Below are a few links to some recent stories, articles, and blog posts. The Gorge Business Review interviews Google’s Dave Karlson about their new cafeteria and composting with Dirt Hugger. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Media
Tagged customers, good press, google, gorge business review, harvest power, oxford
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First (Kinda) Annual Report
One year ago today we filed for our Articles of Incorporation, which I guess makes Dirt Hugger a year old today. In the spirit of transparency, record-keeping and reporting we decided to make a pseudo annual report, Dirt Hugger-style. The … Continue reading
