Food waste pickup in the city

Up the road in the big capital city, a new enterprise has started a food waste pickup program. They pick up the waste for a modest fee, compost it, and subscribers can either a) get fresh composted soil back, or b) donate the soil to an agricultural cause. It addresses the food waste problem, it is ecologically sound, and it does good things for the city.

I love this idea. Food waste shouldn't end up in landfills; it should either get used for biofuel feedstock (widespread implementation is a few years off) or like this composting plan. I hate all the food waste that our family generates. (I noted that part of this is due to excessive sensitivity to the sell-by date, but still, that doesn't cover fruit peels, coffee grounds, plate scraps, things like that.

Where I live is too far-flung to be called a suburb, but I'd take my food waste to a central collection point in the nearby local commercial hub (Prince Frederick, even La Plata) if there was one. But I think that this idea would catch on very nicely in the suburbs, especially as they may have more space for composting operations, more dedicated food waste collectors -- at least in the liberal-politics suburbs -- and much higher population density. Townhome developments and over-55 condo and villa developments would be PERFECT for this kind of thing.

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