The city of Plymouth is rolling-out its curbside organics program and hopes to educate the public about the benefits of composting. “Once people get use to it, it’s not really much of a burden,” said Chris McKenzie, the engineering services manager for city. He says the vast majority of people throw their organics in the trash.
McKenzie hopes to encourage people to recycle it instead. “One question we often get is people wondering about the smell,” said McKenzie, “What people throw away into the organics bin isn’t much different than what’s thrown in a garbage bin. So, it’s not going to smell any more in an organics than in a garbage.”
The new curbside collection is scheduled to begin the first week in March. It will take place the same day residents have their trash picked up. “This cart which will be about 35 gallons or so will be the cart that they’ll use to put the organics in and roll to the curb weekly with their garbage,” said McKenzie. Residents can sign up on Plymouth’s website to receive an organics cart to get started.