Co-founders Katie Forsyth and Claire McLoughlin. Photo from Friendly Composting on Facebook. Need a home for your banana peels, rotten eggs and plant clippings? Friendly Composting, a Kamloops-based organic waste collection service, is expanding to
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McLoughlin will make her pitch to an Enactus panel on May 12 and could take home a $10,000 prize. The service, which starts at $25 per month, offers weekly compost pickup and delivery of local goods, much of which one might find at the farmers’ market. McLoughlin, 26, is working on her master’s degree in environmental economics and management at Thompson Rivers University. She co-founded the company after growing tired of dumping food scraps in the garbage. “I thought, we can’t be the only people feeling this. This is pretty crazy that we can’t compost if we live in an apartment,” she told KTW.
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