Eosta
subsidiary Soil & More has been awarded the right to recover about
95% of the City’s green waste for organic composting. Soil & More
Reliance (SMR) recently signed a contract worth around 70 million Rand
with the City of Cape Town. The company has been awarded the contract
because of her prominent sustainable entrepreneurship.

The
cooperation between the City of Cape Town and SMR started in 2007, when
the company was contracted to chip green waste on three sites in the
Peninsula. Only two years later, municipal authorities rewarded SMR
with a new contract, allowing the company to chip green waste at 12
sites in and around Cape Town. This is a 400% growth within two years,
which will increase the amount of chipped green material from 9.000 m3
to 23.000 m3 (36.000 m3 to 92.000 m3 unprocessed) per month over the
next three years. To ensure efficiency at all sites, SMR invested into
four industrial top (tub) grinders from the USA.

Together
with the City of Cape Town, SMR aims to further reduce the amount of
green waste dumped on landfills. SMR uses innovative composting
technology which does not only transform green waste into high quality
compost, but also qualifies as an emission reduction project according
to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).

Currently,
Soil & More Reliance generates its carbon credits through methane
avoidance in shortening the methane emitting period of the green waste.
Soil & More’s compost is produced using green waste which -if not
used for composting- would be dumped on landfills and left to rot, thus
emitting methane for decades. The carbon credits are generated
according to the latest UNFCCC guidelines, and third party verified.

Parent
Eosta was the first food distributor in Europe to offer TÜV-Nord
certified Climate Neutral products (organic fruits and vegetables),
based on full lifecycle carbon assessments by Soil & More. Eosta
has been a pioneer in sustainable entrepreneurship for years and was
the founder of the “trace and tell” scheme Nature & More. Shortly,
the company will present a whole new view on Corporate Social
Responsibility, including the social values Freedom, Justice and
Solidarity and the environmental themes Air, Animals, Energy, Plants,
Soil and Water.