the REPLENISH Program

REPLENISH is a collaboration among restaurants, haulers, a compost facility, and local farmers. Local favorites like Matt Haley at Blue Coast Restaurant, Arena’s Café, GoFish, and El Dorado have all begun

to participate in diverting their organic material (table scraps). Blue Hen Disposal will be hauling the material to the compost facility at Blue Hen Organics in Dagsboro, Delaware. The training for the separation of organic wastes at other Rehoboth hot spots is getting underway.

EDEN’s REPLENISH Program is a self-certifying program where businesses are qualified to participate by diverting valuable organic material away from the landfills, and creating compost, and/or soil additives which enable local farmers with their agricultural products. The mission of REPLENISH is to create a sustainable new practice in the marketplace with economic benefits for everyone, including the resource recovery specialist/hauler, restaurant, composter, and local farmer. The demonstration project seeks to create awareness of the new practices through community education and the multi-media publication of information about the on-going program, and its outcome data. The goal is to help catalyze a change in resource management and recovery practices.

Participating haulers, restaurants, and farmers in the program will be included in the programs’ educational community outreach efforts, and profiled on the REPLENISH website, DNREC’s – restaurant certification site, and elsewhere.

Who REPLENISHes?

• RESTAURANTS REPLENISH
• FARMERS REPLENISH
• COMPOSTERS
• HAULERS REPLENISH
• How do you REPLENISH

Acceptable Food Waste

Only compostable bags should be used, no plastic bags.