How Much Waste is There and How Do You Track It?
How much waste is there and how do you track it?
Oh, lots of waste. What's funny is when most people start smoking weed as a kid, they hold on to every little mini roach and tiny dust particles of weed they could find to smoke, pull it out of the carpet later. And here I am years later in our trim room, and we'll probably throw away an ounce or two of cannabis a day. Just cannabis that has fallen on the floor or something, we just chuck it, but there's actually a process.
We have a disposal process and every state requires a very specific process. For us, we throw it through a wood chipper to break it down into small particle size, then we mix it with dirt and then we grind that up again. It's completely unusable and disintegrated, then from there we dispose of it. Yeah, we throw away a lot.
The plants cannibalize themselves right before harvest, they suck out all the nutrients from the leaves. They eat themselves to funnel all the energy and nutrients into the bud. All the leaves fall off, the branches and the stalks, the root balls, all that stuff gets thrown away.
Once you dry it, it's gone even lower. So when you take a plant and you cut it and you weigh it, you'll probably have a plant that weighs maybe two or three pounds on average. When it's all dried and cured, the flower that you actually use? Maybe an ounce.
It's all organic waste, so it's not like it's plastics or some oils that can't be broken down. It's all organic because it's literally plant material. The stuff that's going into the dump is the best stuff that could possibly go there. We have no remorse about what's being thrown away because it's something that is definitely going back to the earth anyway.
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