垃圾變現(xiàn)金

位置：佐治亞州亞特蘭大

霍莉?艾爾莫是總部位于亞特蘭大的非贏利機(jī)構(gòu)Elemental Impact的CEO。該機(jī)構(gòu)旨在調(diào)試餐飲行業(yè)降低食余殘?jiān)臅r(shí)間，并將其應(yīng)用于其他行業(yè)。她認(rèn)為，從嚴(yán)格意義上來(lái)講，降低工業(yè)廢棄物也是一種商業(yè)模式。

她說(shuō)，亞特蘭大的商業(yè)氛圍為Elemental Impact的發(fā)展提供了發(fā)展的沃土。亞特蘭大的大部分收入來(lái)源于總部位于亞特蘭大的企業(yè)，以及當(dāng)?shù)嘏e辦的各種會(huì)議和運(yùn)動(dòng)盛會(huì)。

在亞特蘭大，每個(gè)人都關(guān)注如何處理廢棄物，當(dāng)?shù)禺a(chǎn)生很多餐飲垃圾——假日酒店舉辦董事會(huì)會(huì)議以及在佐治亞體育館（Georgia Dome）舉辦體育盛會(huì)，都會(huì)產(chǎn)生大量餐飲垃圾。Elemental Impact則協(xié)助實(shí)現(xiàn)餐飲垃圾的大規(guī)模回收和肥料提煉技術(shù)。

愛(ài)爾莫表示，一些公司可能會(huì)將環(huán)境保護(hù)列為公司宗旨的第一條，但在實(shí)際商業(yè)經(jīng)營(yíng)中卻把它排在了最后一位。而她的環(huán)保組織則將重點(diǎn)放在為客戶帶來(lái)商業(yè)利益。

目前，愛(ài)爾莫致力于改善技術(shù)，以從超市（Publix）垃圾中提煉更多的肥料，并在亞特蘭大和首都華盛頓特區(qū)對(duì)城市食品區(qū)的垃圾利用情況進(jìn)行改革。

她表示，一旦播下“零垃圾”的種子，人們就會(huì)為之著迷，“當(dāng)人們參與其中時(shí)，‘零垃圾’的觀點(diǎn)就會(huì)融入人們的血液?！?/p>

（翻譯 喬樹(shù)靜）

Trash to cash

Location: Atlanta, Ga.

????For Holly Elmore, reducing industry waste is strictly business. She's the CEO of Elemental Impact, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that aims to fine-tune the food industry's waste reduction practices and then apply them to companies in other industries.

????Atlanta's corporate culture provides fertile ground for Elemental Impact, she says. The city depends heavily on the revenue that comes from the many corporate headquarters it houses and the conventions and sports events it hosts.

????Everybody in Atlanta is being held accountable about what happens to waste, and there's plenty of it -- lots of clutter coming from board meetings at the Holiday Inn, lots of half-eaten hot dogs funneling out of the Georgia Dome. Elemental Impact helps facilitate huge recycling and composting efforts.

????Environmentalism may come first in the company's mission statement, but it goes last in the business pitch, Elmore says. The focus is on the business benefit the organization can provide to clients.

????Elmore's currently working to increase composting at Publix and revolutionize food court waste in two locations, one in Atlanta and another in Washington, D.C.

????Once you plant the seed, the zero waste mentality becomes addictive, she says, "You get people on board with you and it gets in their blood."