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File #: 202993    Version: 1
Type: Order Status: Approved
File created: 3/21/2017 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/23/2017 Final action: 3/8/2018
Enactment date: 3/23/2017 Enactment #: 202993
Title: That the Director of Sustainability and Environment update this Board on the planned curbside composting pilot program, and on other possible programs to promote composting.
Sponsors: Mark Niedergang, Katjana Ballantyne, Lance L. Davis

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That the Director of Sustainability and Environment update this Board on the planned curbside composting pilot program, and on other possible programs to promote composting.

 

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That the Director of the Office of Sustainability and Environment report to this Board with an update on the planned curbside composting pilot program, and report on other possible city programs to promote composting by residents, in order to reduce solid waste tonnage and costs, the carbon used to transport food waste to the dump, and the volume and composition of greenhouse gases emitted by decomposing food waste.