Industry: Waste Management
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Number of employees: 8
Became employee owned: 2014
From the company
- http://www.cero.coop/about.html
- CERO – Josefina’s Story (video) (2017)
- Indiegogo – CERO is creating Green jobs that pay off for people, community & the planet (2013)
Learn more
- Politico – How Boston Is Becoming the City Where Workers Rule (2020)
- Edible Boston – New Life for Food Waste: CERO co-op turns scraps into productive compost (2020)
- LEAF – LEAF Approves Loan to Local Commercial Composting Co-Op, CERO (2019)
- Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce – Pacesetters Supplier Spotlight: CERO (2019)
- Cutting Edge Capital – Podcast Interview with Lor Holmes, General Manager of CERO (audio) (2019)
- Open Democracy – Why transforming the economy begins and ends with cooperation (2018)
- Envision – CERO Co-op: good green jobs – circular economy (audio) (2018)
- Dorchester Reporter – Composting coop enriches the soil as well as our economy and democracy (2018)
- ISLR – A Look Into CERO Cooperative & the Waste Stream (2017)
- CoLab – Economic Democracy and Composting: Lessons from CERO (2016)
- Yes – Forget Venture Capitalists—This Scrappy Composting Co-Op Found Another Way to Get Startup Money (2015)
- Boston Herald – Boston recycling co. succeeds with funds raised from public (2015)
- Cutting Edge Capital – $340,000 Raised by Composting and Recycling Worker Cooperative in Massachusetts (2015)
- Shareable – CERO: The Zero Waste, Worker-Owned Cooperative (2014)
- Practical Visionaries – CERO Cooperative Launching (video) (2013)
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