Seattle's Metropolitan Markets have gone corny.
The chain says its Seattle stores are the first in the nation to introduce a completely compostable tray for fish, poultry and other meats. The trays are made from 100 percent corn and take only two months to decompose.
Brad Halverson, the store chain's vice president of marketing, said the market will encourage its customers to "drop the trays into their yard-waste or food bins" rather than into the trash or recycling. That way, the trays can be sent to Cedar Grove Composting and, within three or four months, the resulting compost soil can be resold to local residents for their gardens.
"It's another step toward not throwing stuff away," Dick Lilly, business area manager for waste prevention at Seattle Public Utilities, said of the trays. "Instead of these trays being garbage and being sent all the way to Oregon, they're composted."
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