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L.A. now picks up your compostable food scraps. Here’s what you have to do
1 year, 11 months ago

L.A. now picks up your compostable food scraps. Here’s what you have to do

LA Times  

The wait is finally over for city of Los Angeles residents wanting to comply with California’s food waste mandate. The Bureau of Sanitation announced Jan. 16 that residents citywide should dispose of their banana peels, eggshells and other compostable waste in their green bins. pic.twitter.com/yqwpl1nuNm — LA Sanitation & Environment ♻️💧🌳 January 16, 2023 This announcement comes a year after …

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Editorial: Los Angeles quietly rolls out curbside composting. Maybe too quietly
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: Los Angeles quietly rolls out curbside composting. Maybe too quietly

LA Times  

Sanitation and Environment workers delivered in-home compost pails to residents in August as part of a pilot phase of the city’s curbside food-scraps composting program in select neighborhoods. This week Los Angeles launched its long-awaited curbside composting program citywide, requiring that residents change how they dispose of food scraps. The Los Angeles Public Works Department also sent out basic informational …

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L.A. is finally separating food waste from trash. Will residents embrace composting?
2 years, 4 months ago

L.A. is finally separating food waste from trash. Will residents embrace composting?

LA Times  

L.A. sanitation workers Miguel Torres, left, and Zac Ortiz unload in-home composting pails to be handed out to homeowners in Los Feliz on Aug. 6. “I question why the city of L.A., being a climate leader in the region, is lagging behind conservative coastal Orange County cities,” said Hoiyin Ip, co-chair of Sierra Club California’s Zero Waste Committee. is in …

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How to buy composting worms during the SoCal shortage
2 years, 9 months ago

How to buy composting worms during the SoCal shortage

LA Times  

Wriggly, voracious Eisenia fetida — red wiggler worms — could be the new livestock for Southern California gardeners. Most local farmers aren’t big self-promoters, but we found 13 in Southern California who currently have red wiggler worms available, with prices ranging from $25 per pound to $75 per pound. “The wormies like to eat the poop of vegetarian animals.” Siblings …

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With composting, Californians can take climate change into their own hands
2 years, 9 months ago

With composting, Californians can take climate change into their own hands

LA Times  

L.A. Compost volunteers Yoichi Nagano and Esko Robinson work at the group’s regional hub in Griffith Park. Another round of “aggressive Googling” led Leong to a group called L.A. Compost and the start of a life-changing conversion that began — naturally enough — with broccoli stems, coffee grounds and banana peels. Composting became bigger than itself: a gateway to friendships, …

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California’s new composting law starts Jan. 1. How to recycle your food scraps
2 years, 11 months ago

California’s new composting law starts Jan. 1. How to recycle your food scraps

LA Times  

Starting Jan. 1, instead of throwing that container of fuzzy strawberries into the trash, a new law will require Californians to recycle their food scraps and other leftovers. Food that can be recycled Coffee grounds, coffee filters and non-nylon tea bags Fruit and vegetable scraps Egg shells Used/dirty paper food containers Juice pulp Paper towels and tissues Paper plates Some …

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What you need to know about California’s new composting law — a game changer for food waste
2 years, 11 months ago

What you need to know about California’s new composting law — a game changer for food waste

LA Times  

A tractor-trailer unloads raw materials that will be turned into compost at the Recology Blossom Valley Organics facility in Lamont, Calif., on Dec. 3. Los Angeles County Public Works officials say homes in unincorporated communities will get notices over the first half of 2022 telling them when, and how, to segregate their food waste. Some businesses in L.A. County already …

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California goes to war with food waste. Composting is its next climate crusade
3 years ago

California goes to war with food waste. Composting is its next climate crusade

LA Times  

Sometimes it’s not even trash. Senate Bill 1383 mandates that Californians toss unused food, coffee grounds, egg shells, banana peels and other leftovers into bins they use for other “green” waste, such as garden trimmings, lawn clippings and leaves. “We are pleading with the public, ‘We need recycled food, to help with greening the land around us, to work on …

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