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Bend, OR’s Curbside Yard Debris Recycling Expands to Food Waste

Beginning October 1, Cascade Disposal and Bend Garbage & Recycling, now Republic Services, will collect all food waste curbside from residents participating in the yard debris subscription program. Customers can now add all food scraps directly into their yard debris cart, along with their yard trimmings. The yard debris and food scraps will be processed […]

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ecomaine Announces Deadline for $25,000 in Grants to Promote Recycling, Compost

Today, ecomaine announced its call for proposals for the organization’s 2019-2020 round of School Recycling Grants, which are designed to raise recycling awareness in schools and communities, and to help schools implement more efficient recycling programs or add composting to their waste collection. As Maine’s pioneer of single-sort recycling and provider of waste-to-energy solutions, ecomaine […]

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GAO Report Examines How Date Label Confusion Contributes to Food Waste

U.S. Government Accountability Office GAO recommends the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Serice (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) work with stakeholders outside the federal government to reduce consumer confusion about date labels that contribute to food wast. Almost one-third of the U.S. food supply is lost or wasted at the retail and […]

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Anticipating a Ten-Fold Increase in Food Waste to Process, Waste Management District Transitions

Looking for ways to make a dent in that volume, in 2013 the Monterey Regional Waste Management District signed on to a pilot program for an anaerobic digester, which accepts a blend of 70-percent food scraps and 30-percent yard clippings, and over the course of 21 days, breaks that down to create methane gas. The […]

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Organics Recycling Pushed by Minneapolis, MN Neighborhood Groups

Andrea Siegel, co-chair of the Tangletown Neighborhood Association (TNA) environmental committee, has been spreading the message this summer about changing your recycling mindset by retraining yourself, thanks in part to a $10,000 grant TNA received from Hennepin County. Her neighborhood is one of two in Southwest Minneapolis that has received a grant, which the county […]

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Food Waste Pickup to Begin in Vancouver, WA

Beginning September 30, the amount of food waste arriving at the transfer station will increase as Waste Connections allows single-family residential customers inside Vancouver city limits to add food scraps to their teal-colored yard-debris carts. “We’re excited to roll the program out,” said Derek Ranta, district manager for Waste Connections. “It’s something we have been […]

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Nashville TN’s Zero Waste Plan Calls for Mandatory Recycling and Composting

Nashville wants to manage trash as a resource instead of throwing it in the landfill in Rutherford County which only has eight years of space left, according to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Nashville’s new zero waste master plan just drafted in July adopts proven practices from cities like San Francisco, which in an even […]

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Curbside Composting Coming to Eugene, OR on October 1

Curbside compost collection will start October 1 throughout Eugene. Residents have long requested curbside composting, and the city recently tested it out among about 1,500 residents. Portland, Bend and other Oregon cities already have curbside composting. Each year Eugene sends about 40 million pounds of food waste into the landfill, according to the city. Officials didn’t […]

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Will Compostable Packaging Ever Be Able to Solve Our Waste Problem?

As companies struggle to deal with the challenge of single-use packaging, compostable options are becoming more common, and consumers might consider it greenwashing if they knew that the packaging won’t ever actually be composted. The system, though, is beginning to change, including new innovations in materials. “These are solvable problems, not inherent problems,” says Rhodes […]

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Running on Leftovers: Grant Will Revitalize Madison, WI Program to Turn Food Scraps into Energy

The City of Madison Streets and Recycling Department is revitalizing a food waste collection program that ended last year, thanks in part to a $39,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. Last year, the Madison Recycling Department shutdown the organics-collection program that had been running for seven years. The new program, called the Food Scraps […]

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North Front Range Regional Wasteshed Coalition Wins National Award

The North Front Range Regional Wasteshed Coalition has earned the 2019 Outstanding Community or Government Program Award from the National Recycling Coalition.This national award honors the unprecedented collaboration, cooperation, and visionary work of the project, which serves as a model for the rest of Colorado and stands out as a best practice throughout the U.S. […]

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