Los Angeles To Recycle Food Waste

by 08/19/08 2 Comments

The Los Angeles City Council approved Tuesday a pilot program for recycling food waste, reports The Los Angeles Times.

The experiment will begin next month by giving 5,000 households a 2-gallon kitchen pail for table scraps.  It is to be filled with leftovers such as coffee grounds, bones and tea bags. Food-soiled packaging, such as pizza boxes, will also be welcomed.

After collecting a variety of scraps, the idea is to empty the pail into the household’s 60-gallon green yard waste bin. The yard and food waste will be collected and made into compost.

Several areas in California have similar programs, especially in the San Fransisco Bay area.

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Ashley Schiller

Ashley Schiller

Ashley Schiller is a freelance writer living in Washington, D.C.


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2 Archived Comments

  1. Maurizio Maranghi

    posted on January 24th, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    Thanks goodness that Los Angeles is FINALLY getting invovlved even more. We need to step up our recycling game like San Francisco does it.

    - Maurizio Maranghi -

  2. Lottie Cleveland

    posted on May 31st, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Hi, enjoyed reading the info about recycling food waste. I have been tossing my food scrapes into the green recycling trash bins. what other ways can I contribute or use the food scrapes? thanks

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