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It may be an airport—not the greenest of venues by nature—but DIA is really trying to lighten its carbon load. It's already working on the world's greenest parking lot, which includes solar and wind power. Now it's composting.
The airport did a pilot study last year to test the feasibility of composting on site, and it proved successful enough that they're pushing it through for real. The environmental management team at DIA is teaming up with A1 Organics to start a composting program that will see 65-gallon compost containers distributed to 20 sites around the airport, in employee break rooms and at restaurants in the main terminal.
Hopefully they'll mark the bins clearly and do some work on education as well, so that compost bins don't fill with trash the way I've seen them do at, say, Yankee Stadium. Because composting is awesome—I collect compost at home and I don't even have a bin—but it needs real participation to work.
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