The Water Ave daytime coffee bar at Enso will be open in early June 2013, with hours set for 7am – 2pm Mon-Friday, 7am-1pm weekends. As per Matt Miletto: “Our goal with Enso is to provide an outlet for great coffee, and to work closely with a wine maker and coffee roaster to explore our similarities and revel in the differences.” As for the gear on hand, expect high-end equipment like Mazzer grinders, Chemex hand-pour and Fetco batch brew, alongside “a baller espresso machine.” and other accoutrements. “It’ll be a mini version of what we do here at Water Ave, but with a bigger focus on tastings,” Matt told Sprudge.
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The plan is for a series of collaborative tastings as well as wine and coffee pairing options, according to Water Avenue owner Matt Milletto.
Visitors can expect a fully operating espresso and coffee bar service from out of Enso’s roll-up garage doors, in all the tree-shaded glory of that particular block of SE Stark. The value of composting is to create nutrient rich top soil – not to convert everything into air or to leave plastic fragments in our soil.Īs we move toward more natural compostable materials such as ENSO RENEW, perhaps it will help Portland to reconsider accepting plastics in the compost system.Hot on the heels of christening their new mobile espresso truck, we’re breaking the news today that Portland, Oregon’s Water Avenue Coffee have teamed up with Enso Winery to bring a new coffee bar component to Enso’s “Urban Winery and Tasting Lounge” space at 1416 SE Stark in the Buckman neighborhood of SE Portland. Plant matter degrades slowly over time and results in carbon retention in the soil as well as minerals and nutrients (together all of this known as humus). Either way, there is no value or benefit left in the soil.Ĭontrary to popular belief, these synthetic compostable plastics are not the same as plant matter in the compost. The result? You end up with plastics that turn into greenhouse gas or don’t break down at all in the compost system.
These requirements are also built for commercial compost systems that operate at extremely high temperatures – much higher than most compost piles ever reach (why? because PLA requires the high heat to break down). Current ASTM D6400 requirements for compostable plastics require that the plastic convert 90% to CO2 within 120 days. These second types of compostable plastics add absolutely no value to the compost system. There are other synthetic plastics that will compost, such as PLA, that are not similar to food waste (and will not biodegrade in your back yard either). There are natural plastics such as starch and ENSO RENEW that are virtually identical to food waste. Unfortunately, what they were not told when they were sold on the “compostable plastic” was there is many different plastics that will compost, some provide value while others do not. This decision comes as a surprise to many restaurants who have diligently converted to compostable plastics trying to “go green”. This also means that compostable plastics should not be marketed as compostable in Portland because they are not allowed in the system. In fact, any food scrap loads with more than trivial amounts of compostable plastics will be diverted to the landfill.
Portland has announced a major change to their community compost system – as of Mathey will no longer be accepting compostable plastics such as forks, spoons and cups.
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