| LA Tackles Food Waste with Green Buckets |
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| Written by Heather McKee | |
| Monday, 23 June 2008 | |
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Last month San Francisco asked residents to separate out their organic waste for city collection and composting. This fall, Los Angeles will pilot its own food waste recycling system. Residents of Los Angeles have been dumping over 460 million pounds of food scraps each year. This September, officials will take a modest swipe at this mountain of organic waste by handing out pretty green two-gallon buckets to 8,700 citizens in North Central and South Los Angeles to collect their yard and food waste for composting. Diversion of the majority of Los Angeles’ food waste is unlikely to happen overnight, though. As a Bureau of Sanitation Manager stated, “We're such a large city. When we implement something, the scale is huge…Is there enough processing capacity currently to handle that avalanche of food waste?” One possible idea is to convert the food waste to methane, as Los Angeles airports are already testing on a small scale. Via LA Daily News |
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