Arrange for a residential and/or business/institutional source-separated organics collection/management program.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Provide participant numbers and/or tons managed of one or more programs: food-to-people, food-to-animals, organics and compostables collection, and backyard composting. Mention any yard waste collection program (note that disposal of yard waste in the trash is banned by state law from landfills). |
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Organics collection by one hauler; drop-site collection of organics; facilitate multiple businesses to collect compostables; include a public outreach program to prevent food waste. |
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Facilitate the logistics for more prevention of public/commercial food waste; manage organics via small site composting or anaerobic digestion, and/or set and meet an aggressive program goal, such as % residents/businesses participating or profitability of program; assist with or directly manage yard waste so as to produce and sell a value-added mulch (esp. from Ash) and/or compost product. |
Resources
- GreenStep Workshop: August 2022 - Best Practices for Community Organics Composting Collection and Sites & Glacial Ridge Tour
- The Minnesota Composting Council keeps a list of organics collection and drop-off programs. The MPCA Compost Facility Locator includes public and commercial composting facilities for yard waste and source-separated organics.
- See food waste management and prevention resource from Eureka Recycling
- See the food recovery hierarchy (U.S. EPA) and a hierarchy to reduce food waste (ILSR).
- Cities are also encouraged to adopt policies that expand markets for compost to improve the economic sustainability of organics collection and management programs. See these actions where cities can specify the use of compost as a soil amendment (using a MnDOT specification): Purchasing BPA 15.5, Forestry BPA 16.2, Stormwater BPA 17.5, and Parks BPA 18.5.
Order Number
5
Action Type
Finite