I got into watching TikToks
and I saw what people were doing,
and I told Shota one day that we we really ought to try that
and and see if we can't drum up some following.
He just kept asking me about it
and one day I was like, “ Alright, we'll shoot one.”
I■ve got an idea.
doechii,
why don't you introduce yourself to the class?
And it goes on and on and on and
Here at Tank's Green Stuff we currently operate on about a
piece of land.
In most years we produce somewhere between 48
and 56,000 cubic yards of compos diverting somewhere
around 100 to 150,000 cubic yards of green
from our landfills.
You want to go, don't you?
No!
Sorry, this is our process.
We do a what to plant in Tucson
And then in those, I try and do educational fun facts that are
that are mostly about composting and about gardening or planting
And then occasionally we just do some fun, goofy tren
whatever they are to attract peo in watching our educational con
Shota's my hype man
I guess I am Wolfey's hype man.
Yeah, just one after the other
You're a player aren't you?
You can't fool me like that You're gonna leave me on read.”
Groove.
I said why don't you try me on now?
I went from
not only being somebody that
that just makes compost to,
I guess, being a TikTok star as
You got plans. Don't say that.
Shut your trap. I'm sippin wine, sip, sip.
in a row.
I looked to good to be alone.
Compost basically is made up of your carbon
materials or chunks, so little bits of woody pieces
and then the
nutrient rich or the microbial rich part is the humus,
which is the real fine particles that are in the compost.
We get a lot of the material from the local landscapers
DIYers. We■ll spend a couple of composting it,
and then you can take it home
and make your oasis in the desert.
Hello.
What number is yours again or letter?
46. 46, awesome.
And we have 31.5 pounds.
That's how much you weigh.
Hey, dump it.
We'll get a lot of people who come to us saying,
“Hey, I talked to Tank■s
and I want to divert my household food waste,
and they sent me here to you.”
We balance each other out
and we try to reduce all the different types
of organic waste in Tucson.
She's ready to make her entrance 5.5 pounds.
Molly!
This is my dog, Molly.
My goal every week is to bring in
more than Molly
weighs in compost.
Hey! molly!
should we see who weighs more
you want to see if you weigh more than the compost?
She's usually between like six and a half, 7 pounds.
Yeah, you're good.
Oh, she was the same as the compost.
she also cares about sustainability
and doing something good for the planet,
people and animals, so she would everyone else out there.
If you don't already to sign up and compost
either at the U of A Compost Cats
or another organization out there.
Our heaviest one today was like 20 it was 31.
To get set up.
You come to our community garden
you got a bucket from us, fill it up
with their food scraps throughout the week
and bring it back to us.
Once it gets the community garden
our student compost specialist will
weigh it, check it for contamination
and then add it to our bin.
And there they spend a lot of time
watering, augering,
and making sure that the compost is developing properly
so we can get
good, nutritious soil amendment that can then be used
by gardeners in the community garden or our community.
The University of Arizona Compost Cats
are the only composting operation
that processes food waste in Tucson
The commercial operation, we have a partnership
with the city of Tucson, environmental services
where we just
provide big bins
and they will provide on-boarding, we provide training
The action of collecting food scraps
and making it into compost
is very meaningful.
I think this industry is going to keep growing.
It's one of those things that's becoming an essential service
In a lot of places around the country.
It's already been mandated.
It will become much more the norm in places.
as time progresses.
I think it would be great to reach
as many people as possible about the composting industry.
It's not going anywhere.
no going back.
So there's there's just going to be more and more
and more facilities like this.
Hey Wolfey, whatcha doing?
Fishing!
What for?
There's nothing in here.
Yeah but if I don't try we won't know.
My bestie and your bestie
Sit down by the fire.
Your bestie says she want to party,
So can we make these flames go higher?
Talkin' hey now (hey now), hey now (hey now)