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Farmington Green Efforts Committee Confronts the Cost of Food-Scrap Collection

Jack Beckett·

Farmington’s Green Efforts Committee is studying food-scrap collection after a potential hauler warned that the service would add a municipal cost, not produce savings. The committee still needs pricing, locations and evidence of resident demand before deciding whether to recommend a pilot.

Farmington's Green Efforts Committee Has More Ideas Than It Can Finish. So It Picked Four.

Jack Beckett·

Farmington's Green Efforts Committee spent its July meeting not dreaming up new initiatives but narrowing the ones it already has, settling on four goals it might actually complete: waste reduction, climate resilience, dark skies, and habitat. The flagship is town-wide composting. The complication, from the school district's own facilities director, is that composting has been costing Farmington money, not saving it.

Farmington's April 25 Town-Wide Cleanup Logged 89 Volunteers and 2,200 Pounds of Trash

Henry Whitfield·

Eighty-nine volunteers turned out for Farmington's town-wide cleanup on Saturday, April 25, weighing in 1,339 pounds of trash and filling trucks that tipped at about 2,200 pounds. Top groups: Miss Porter's, the seven-person NHS subset "Bubby Tube," the broader National Honor Society contingent, and the Farmington Land Trust. The committee is weighing whether to relocate the Irving-Alling Recreation station next year after a baseball game running during the cleanup produced no engagement.

Farmington Green Efforts Committee Funds Full $4,500 for Union School Compost Table

Henry Whitfield·

The Farmington Green Efforts Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to cover the full $4,500 cost of a custom compost-sorting table for Union Elementary School — more than doubling the $2,000 the school's Student Council had asked for and freeing the Union PTO from the contribution it had pledged. Three Student Council members presented the school's three-stream cafeteria sorting program before the vote.

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