Interesting read from a while back "The District has a less-than-ideal waste situation: It sends most of its garbage to a plant in Lorton, Va., that burns it to create energy. By one rough estimate, about 25 percent of that is compostable, which means it could be turned into healthy new soil instead. Some of the scraps can be taken to local community gardens and organic farms, but regulations around human food waste being dumped in urban areas are vague and loosely enforced, which doesn’t work for institutional food generators—they need a steady, reliable place to send stuff that doesn’t get eaten." washingtoncitypaper/blogs/housingcomplex/2012/03/07/scrap-gap/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:24:33 +0000
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