WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--California Safe Soil, LLC, (CSS) a privately held 100% sustainable and organic fertilizer manufacturer, and Davis Grocery Outlet, a leading Davis, CA supermarket, today announced that they have entered into an organics recycling agreement to make efficient use of Davis Grocery Outlet’s recyclable organics. Davis Grocery Outlet seeks to increase the sustainability of its operations, including having its organics recycled to help grow the next cycle of fresh, local produce for the benefit of its customers, displacing nitrate fertilizer and helping make the operations of its farm suppliers more sustainable.
CSS has a breakthrough technology to recycle organics from local supermarkets, which are processed in only three hours in a strict, environmentally sensitive manufacturing facility. The resulting liquid fertilizer (called Harvest-to-Harvest, or H2H), is pasteurized for food safety, stabilized for extended shelf life, and emulsified, for ease of application by farmers through existing farm equipment. CSS has a pilot plant in West Sacramento which is supplied by five major food chain supermarkets in the area, including Davis Grocery Outlet.
The use of H2H can help significantly cut farmers’ use of conventional chemical fertilizers, reducing nitrate runoff into lakes and streams by as much as two-thirds. That’s a ‘win-win’ for farmers and the environment, helping farmers address concerns raised by state regulatory agencies to reduce nitrate runoff, and consumer demand for more sustainable farming practices.
About CSS - CSS provides a unique full-cycle process that will assist our supermarket customers to recycle their organics, improve store hygiene, and reduce costs, while helping our agricultural customers save money, increase crop yields and reduce nitrate runoff. We are committed to recycling supermarket organics into a safe, easy to use, low cost, high volume, and high quality fertilizer, H2H. As a result, we will greatly improve our air, water and soil environment, while employing safe, efficient, and effective solutions that meet the needs of our customers.
About Davis Grocery Outlet – The Davis Grocery Outlet is independently owned and operated by Eric and Shannon Flick and offers extreme bargains on brand name merchandise, with prices often up to 50% cheaper than conventional retailers. The store carries refrigerated and frozen foods, fresh produce, fresh meat, organics, dry groceries, beer and wine, health and beauty care, over-the-counter drugs, household products, toys and gifts.
Based in Berkeley, Calif., Grocery Outlet Inc. is the largest “extreme-value” grocer in the U.S., and has almost 200 locations in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. A third-generation, family-owned company founded in 1946, Grocery Outlet’s mission has always been to provide customers a fun place to find extreme values on name brands they trust. For more information, please visit groceryoutlet.com/davis-ca.
