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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: TomSea on June 08, 2017, 01:22:29 am

Title: North Carolina: Bike-powered Durham compost company bought by Raleigh rival
Post by: TomSea on June 08, 2017, 01:22:29 am

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(http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/r8n839/picture154923939/alternates/FREE_960/tilthyrichbike)
Raleigh’s CompostNow recently bought Durham’s Tilthy Rich Compost, which gathered compost by bike. Kat Nigro Kat Nigro

Bike-powered Durham compost company bought by Raleigh rival

By Evie Fordham

efordham@newsobserver.com

The fleet of bicyclists who gather compost from downtown Durham homes and business for Tilthy Rich Compost will have a new name on their t-shirts: CompostNow.

Raleigh-based CompostNow acquired Tilthy Rich this week. The businesses diverted almost 900,000 pounds of waste from landfills in 2016, according to a press release from CompostNow.

Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article154923944.html#storylink=cpy

Pretty cool that someone would start a business like this. I had no idea.