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Upper Arlington recommends continuing curbside food-waste collection under current contract
Summary
City staff reported growth in Upper Arlington’s curbside food-waste program to about 1,842 households, presented cost options for continuing the service and recommended using contract option years with Local Waste while planning for inclusion in the 2028 trash-and-recycling rebid.
Upper Arlington staff told City Council on June 16 that the city’s curbside food-waste collection program has grown from 100 pilot households in 2022 to about 1,842 participating households and has diverted roughly 1.2 million pounds of organics since the program began.
“I am here from the public service department, and I'm here to talk to you tonight about our food waste collection program,” management assistant Katie Reese said as she opened the presentation and walked council through participation, tonnage and contract details.
Reese said the city started a drop-off program in 2019 that later expanded into a curbside pilot in February 2022 with USDA grant support. The curbside pilot initially used Go 0 Services and is now in the second year of a contract with Local Waste. Reese said the two-year contract is “just shy of $400,000” in total, the contracted rate is $10 per…
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