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'When the Town's Paying for It': Farmington's Compost Pilot Waits on Town Hall
Residents told a Green Efforts Committee member they would compost "when the town's paying for it." The committee priced a one-year food-scrap pilot at $12,484 and has roughly $30,000 of its own, but held off: the pickups would outlast the pilot, and the town has not said it will pay for them.
Farmington Green Efforts Committee Confronts the Cost of Food-Scrap Collection
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.
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.