City-Wide Compost!
Have compost pick-ups with garbage pick ups.
(Submitted by 9 people at the Capital Bikeshare Birthday Bash 9/22/2011)
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Reyn Anderson
commented
How about tax incentives for office building management companies to add bins for compostable materials alongside recyclables? Also, they should be accompanied with visual illustrations of what goes where, like Whole Foods does with its waste bins.
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Faith H.
commented
Not sure how they manage / operate it, but Vienna, Austria has bio trash containers every few city blocks, so people in apartments can just chuck their stuff into a centralized receptacle = fewer pick ups. Why not connect the compost w/ whatever local food efforts / gardening is underway?
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Hilary
commented
This is a great idea. Also thank you for posting details about existing for-pay service provided by Compost Cab, compostcab.com ($8/week they pick up, or you drop at Dupont Farmer's market for $2/week)
Yes, D.C. already has curbside leaf composting, but it would be great to do so much more to reduce and reuse our food trash, keeping it out of the landfill -- and water ways, as pointed out by a previous commenter, who says a City-Wide food-trash pick-up for Compost program would help WASA to have a cleaner water due to less garbage disposal of food trash into waste water.
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Composting Bins in DRES buildings.
(Submitted at an event)
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City-wide composting collection. Longer term.
(submitted at Cleveland Park Day on 10/1/2011)
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Start curbside pick-up of compostable material [idea submitted at event].
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Encourage all levels of composting. Toilets, in-house composting, community compositing and large scale food composting.
(Submitted by 2 people at Ecolocity on 10/1/2011)
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Industrial scale composting. Produce revenue, have it as a business.
(Submitted by Ecolocity on 10/1/2011)
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Large scale community composting facility for all city food waste.
(Submitted by Ecolocity on 10/1/2011)
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More compost holders at the DPR centers.
(Submitted at the DPR All Hands Day on 9/30/2011)
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Support composting at an industrial/business scale to reduce waste. Need policy and market incentives to do this. [Submitted at DC Environmental Network stakeholder meeting (9/23).]
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city compost!
(Submitted by Just Economics 9/23/2011)
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Create public compost collection sites.
(Submitted at the UDC Green Living Expo 9/24/2011)
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compost recycling at the curb
(Submitted by 3 people at the UDC Green Living Expo 9/24/2011)
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Composting for schools (DCPS) PK-12.
(Submitted at the Capital Bikeshare Birthday Bash 9/22/2011)
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Mandatory compost.
(Submitted at the Capital Bikeshare Birthday Bash 9/22/2011)
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Compost Trash Cans around city.
(Submitted at the Capital Bikeshare Birthday Bash 9/22/2011)
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City-wide Composting
Can we get city composting underway? San Francisco had some sort of city collection system, but my landlords never participated. I know Compost Cab has a paid service, but until I land a job it's tough to commit to that monthly fee. [Submitted via email.]
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Thank you for this great effort! I would love to have an opportunity to have yard clippings/compost materials picked up with the rest of my recycling at home. Also our recycling bins should be three times the size of our trash bins! Everyone I know has a lot more recycling than trash! [Submitted via email]
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Evee T
commented
I think there definitely needs to be consideration of this idea. Especially for apt dwellers. The compost cab thing sounds great. Maybe DC could join in a public-private partnership with the program so that the weekly cost could go down a little for curbside pick-up. I would also support the idea of DC funding a PR campaign to explain to people what is compostable and what is not. I think that this would be important to getting any successful program off the ground.
