Philadelphia has 2 composting firms – PhillyCompost and Bennett Compost and city wide composting efforts are still distant plans.
It’s now illegal to throw your food waste into the trash in San Francisco…what about Philadelphia??
San Francisco inhabitants use green colored trash bins to gather food trash that are collected by a fleet of specialized city trucks.
Considering that San Francisco is collecting 500 tons of food scraps every day – how much food scrap could we collect in Philadelphia and how much money would the city of Philadelphia save on the fees it pays to dump its trash in the regional landfills?
To become the greenest city in the country, Philadelphia will need to take initiatives that may annoy some people such as: banning plastic bags from stores or getting serious with educating its thousands of employees about good sustainability practices. Good intentions and ambitious goals alone will not make it.
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