Four organizations: Pheasant Run Recycling and Disposal Facility, a division of Waste Management, Kenosha In Neighborhood Works Inc. (KIN), a non-profit grass-roots community organization, Ocean Spray, Inc., and Maple Leaf Farms, a local duck farm, have pooled their efforts and resources to produce a high quality compost product from a fruit by-product, cranberry mash, and a poultry waste material duck manure. The combined efforts are helping to produce a high quality soil conditioner and is tradenamed as Father Dom’s Duck Doo Compost, divert more than half of Ocean Spray’s waste from landfill disposal, and enhance environmental awareness, stewardship, and opportunities among the youth and community of Kenosha county.

In 1989, Ocean Spray expressed an interest in establishing a means to reuse its fruit by-product. As a result, Pheasant Run offered to provide the technical foundation and land for composting the material, and the KIN group, founded by Father Dominic Roscioli, agreed to provide manpower for marketing the finished compost product. The KIN organization raises funds by selling the compost to landscapers and gardeners. To encourage smaller purchases of the compost, KIN has also opened the New Earth store In Kenosha.

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Mike Infusino, Waste Management , Inc., 262-857-7956 Father Dominic Roscioli, KIN, 414-657-4463