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Naples-area compost operation growing and thriving (article)

Original article found here: http://www.mpnnow.com/news/20161128/naples-area-compost-operation-growing-and-thriving A small backyard compost turned into a rich farming operation in Prattsburgh that is keeping Naples-area food waste out of the landfill By Julie Sherwood (jsherwood@messengerpostmedia.com) Al Zappetella makes weekly rounds through Naples to pick up buckets of kitchen scraps. Barrels of discarded onion skins, banana peels, coffee grounds, egg shells, apple cores and other food waste — along with leaves, yard trimmings and other organic waste — get trucked a few miles down the road to Prattsburgh. Zappetella has been doing the free pickups for a few years now. That is, after he and partner Celeste Arlie realized they were outgrowing their small, backyard compost pile in Naples. Family, friends and neighbors began adding to the pile. It cut everyone’s household waste by more…

A Quick Statement to the City of Philadelphia on the Importance of Composting (article repost)

(reposted from my other website, tylertalkstrash.com) Recently I was asked to provide a statement to the City of Philadelphia on why composting needs to be made more widely available for its residents. While there will be some difficult logistical challenges to evaluate, there is absolutely no reason why this can't make positive progress. I was in quite a rush, but at the last minute I was able to type something out. Luckily, I think about this very issue quite often so I was able to write a cranky blurb just in time. Here it is: I’ve lived in Philadelphia for nine years, and while the city has plenty of green initiatives going on for it, there’s also plenty of room for improvement. The most obvious is the lack of curbside…

Tulsa, OK Chooses Incineration Over Composting (article)

Article reposted from: http://www.energyjustice.net/content/tulsa-ok-chooses-incineration-over-composting Tulsa, OK Chooses Incineration Over Composting August 14, 2014 — Josh - by Jarrel Wade, August 6, 2014, Tulsa World Trash board members voted Tuesday to begin the process of seeking bids for contractors to pick up curbside green waste and take it to the city’s burn plant. The recently introduced plan from the Tulsa Authority for Recovery of Energy is to send green waste to the city’s burn plant permanently, essentially ending Tulsa’s curbside green-waste program as it was originally promised. The TARE board vote authorizes staff to invite bids from contractors for board evaluation and possible acceptance at future meetings. The vote followed discussion about several contractual obligations that hindered implementation of the new plan. TARE officials have said their goals are to keep…