What are the incentives that encourage you to participate in food waste collection? Has that changed since you started the pilot?

Adding food waste to the leaf and yard waste composting process supplies additional nutrients for a more potent and robust compost product produced by the City. 

Diverting organic waste from the landfill will increase the amount of landfill space for the future. This will save taxpayer dollars now by extending the timeline for the construction of a new landfill – currently calculated at a whopping 65-90 Million dollars! 

When organic matter breaks down in a landfill, where it is compacted and starved of oxygen, it creates harmful gases such as methane which we all know has a detrimental effect on the environment. Composting food waste adds oxygen to the decomposition process, significantly reducing the amount of greenhouse gas produced.