Does GoZERO conduct in-person, onsite visits for customers or community organizations?
GoZERO is a regional non-profit service provider, hyper-focused on providing food waste-to-composting disposal services. As a result, it has a relatively small and focused team that is typically engaged in delivering and developing those services.
However, in support of composting rather than landfilling food waste, GoZERO does accept speaking engagements and other events when invited. Consulting and knowledge sharing are something GoZERO tries to do as much as possible on a complimentary basis, in concert with providing food waste composting-related services and products. Specifically, customers and prospective customers can expect GoZERO to give tips, tricks, best practices, and ideas we've come across along the way to ensure the food waste composting programs they support are successful.
Typically, support is best offered remotely via email, phone, or video calls, or articles like this one. It's possible to provide onsite food waste composting program coordinators and champions the help they need without requiring the additional expense of onsite or otherwise more in-depth consultation. With a phone call or two and a few good articles, it's usually possible to begin formulating a plan tailored to a given site's needs.
After connecting by phone to determine whether help can be offered remotely by equipping onsite in-house personnel — typically a program coordinator or champion — GoZERO can arrange a site visit for a fee. GoZERO doesn't pad service costs to cover additional periodic or incidental expenses. GoZERO is committed to fees that reflect costs, with a minimal but sustainable margin, to make food waste composting as accessible as possible.
If an in-person onsite visit is appropriate, one or more needs are identified, and specific objectives are defined in advance. Typical needs GoZERO sees that warrant an in-person onsite visit:
Pitching the idea of a food waste composting program to organizational decision makers.
Building a detailed plan for the setup and upkeep of a food waste composting program.
Introducing frontline personnel to how a food waste composting program can work.
Kicking off a food waste composting program.
If any of this resonates with you in relation to a food waste composting project or community event you're working on, contact us or leave us a comment below. And as always, thanks for considering compost!