California town testing curbside pickup of composting materials
In Contra Costa California, now you can compost without even doing it yourself!
They are now picking up the materials from the curb and composting it for you, in a test program.
If the service is popular, it could be extended to other communities as well.
“The challenge for us is showing that you can avoid or minimize the problems about odors and flies that worry people,” said Bart Carr, composting program coordinator for the Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority. “You can have an efficient, convenient and sanitary composting program.”
The waste authority is asking Danville residents to segregate, store and then dump banana peels, coffee grounds and other food wastes into the green carts they currently use for leaves and grass clippings.
It’s always a great thing if more materials that can be composted actually get composted. But it seems kind of lame for someone to collect the materials and not make their own compost with it. All you need to do is throw it in your own compost bin instead of giving it to the city, and you’ll have the finished compost to use in your own yard, for free!
April 18th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
My name is Matt Stemple and I’m a student at the University of Vermont work on a community service project. My project is based on trying to get a composting pickup service started and i would like to talk to someone about the steps taken to start the process and some of the problems that came up. Currently I have passed out 300 surveys for market research and only got back 10, not so good. How can I make the survey process more useful?
thanks
matt.
mstemple@uvm.edu
201-602-8111
timely contact would be much appreciated for the end of year is coming.