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Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story

A passionate team of composting advocates is tackling the issue of food waste in landfills with their cutting-edge composting machine, bEartha. Through a community-driven approach, they are turning waste into nutrient-rich soil, making a positive impact on the environment. Stop.

Ben and bEartha (or Ben and Bertha) is a 40-minute documentary following the highs and lows of a passionate community of composters as they attempt to tackle the issue of food waste going to landfill. Their solution? A composting machine called bEartha and a community-scale approach that produces beautiful, living soil. If compost isn't your thing yet, here's a story that might surprise you into a passion for kitchen scraps and microbes. And if composting's already one of your great loves - because compost practitioners do seem to really LOVE compost - then we reckon this community-focused story is going to stir up your compost passion. Composting food scraps seems like such a small and simple act, but it's one of many crucial solutions to addressing climate change, reducing waste, and creating a regenerative food system.

Info about Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story

Studio(s): Happen Films

Originally Released: United States, May 27, 2023

Production Country: New Zealand

Genres:Documentary, Short