What cities in the US have the best composting infrastrutures?

Asked by jdegrazia (274

) January 20th, 2010

I know Boulder, CO has a third bin (in addition to a trash bin and a recycling bin) for compostable materials that you can leave on the curb for pickup. Have people created similar systems elsewhere? Or dissimilar systems that achieve the same goal (less valuable, nutritious, rotting stuff into landfills, and more of that stuff back into farmland)?

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Seattle and Portland

trailsillustrated (16804

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San Francisco has an excellent system where they’re taking primarily restaurant waste (and secondarily the green bin materials from residental users), processing that into fertilizer, and selling it to the local farmers (who then sell to the restaurants, etc. etc. etc)

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