Mike Andes profiles a Vermont food-scrap collection business that pulls in $16-18k monthly and $190,000 yearly. The operator collected over 2 million pounds of food in three years and sells finished compost that crumbles by hand.
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$190,000 a year.
About $16,000–$18,000 per month.
Over £2 million of food (speaker's phrasing).
For every gallon of food, use three gallons of material (3:1 material:food).
About four months.
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Look, if you're willing to just get your hands dirty, do blue collar work, do home services, apply yourself, and just grind, you can make money doing anything. This guy out in Vermont making $190,000 a year pick up people's food scraps.
They keep the here, only one spool right now. Simple as that 1350 I just made. Yeah. So typically, I come in with the truck, unload all the bins, sift through it a little bit. You can see I got, like, wood chips right here. For every gallon of food, you want three gallons of material. I bring it out into the field over here. You want to walk down there. It's been here about two weeks, and you can see how far it's broken down. It says 80 degrees. It should be a little more like 110 right now. So that's like the finished product before it gets screened and sold. You can basically crumble it with your hands. The pad to this is probably four months. We come in with a tractor, and then one of us is standing on the other side with a rake, kind of raking it down. In the three years I've done it, I've picked up over £2 million of food. The business probably brings in 16 to 18,000amonth.
