The Many Benefits of Composting
U.S. PIRG and Frontier Group collaborate on a report detailing best practices for municipal compost programs.
According to a report delivered earlier this year, “Only 326 towns and cities out of more than 19,000 nationwide offer curbside food waste collection.” And even that small number represents an increase of 65 percent in the past five years! In my hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, I’m fortunate in that our local transfer station—Windham Solid Waste Management District—offers weekly curbside pickup of compost, “diverting approximately 104,000 pounds of compostable materials per month from landfills.”
Why compost, you might ask? The aforementioned report, authored by U.S. PIRG Education…
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