Leave something extra on your plate? Unused eggshells from cooking? What about all those coffee grounds? Los Angeles is asking a group of residents to recycle these and other leftovers for an experimental garbage pickup program.
Here is how it works:
The Bureau of Sanitation will distribute 2-gallon kitchen pails to 5000 households in Harbor Gateway, Lincoln Heights and South Los Angeles and residents are asked to dispose of food and “food-soiled” materials like pizza boxes.
A 2002 survey found that single-family homes generate 230,000 tons of food waste annually that could be turned into compost. That survey found nearly 27% of the garbage in the black bins was food waste.
If this program becomes citywide, it could divert as much as 600 tons of waste from landfills.
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