Published in Portsmouth Patch and Foster's Daily Democrat

By Andrew Tiebout

Those squat green bins that hang out behind kitchens have become a familiar sight around downtown Portsmouth. They’re the compost bins of EcoMovement and they represent not a new city ordinance on waste removal, but the steady shift in individual attitudes toward sustainable behaviors.

EcoMovement, founded by locals Rian Bedard and Marcel Miranda with the goal of helping businesses approach a zero waste status, started out with a pilot program in 2009 that involved five businesses. Two years later, they have grown to service over 40 seacoast businesses.

The Portsmouth Brewery was one of the five restaurants to take part in EcoMovement’s pilot program, an initiative that helped to educate those restaurants as well as EcoMovement about the challenges and benefits of composting food waste in the seacoast region.

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