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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.