Food Waste Composting

A new report from the Center for a Competitive Waste Industry, out of Madison, Wisconsin suggests strongly that the next generation of recycling is the composting of food scraps and soiled paper. The attached report surveyed 121 cities in Canada and the U.S., all early adopters of expanded organics recovery programs, and concludes that the cities surveyed demonstrate how to raise diversion of municipal solid wastes generated from 1/3 to more than 2/3.

The 79-page report is entitled "Beyond Recycling: Composting Food Scraps and Soiled Paper"  It provides recycle program managers with a guidebook of best practices for expanding beyond recycling, and composters with advice on how to process food scraps. The survey was developed with the goal of encouraging and optimizing future efforts, and to provide understanding as to what can be learned from the 121 early-adopters that collect organic materials from the residential sector.