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Middletown, other Connecticut towns report higher diversion after food‑scrap collection and pay‑as‑you‑throw pilots
Summary
Municipal pilots combining curbside food‑scrap collection and unit‑based pricing show significant waste reductions and higher recycling in pilot areas, municipal leaders told a joint legislative forum. Middletown reported a 62% capture rate for food scraps in its sanitation district and an overall waste reduction in the district.
Mayor Benjamin Florsheim, mayor of Middletown, described his city’s curbside pilot combining co‑collection of food scraps with unit‑based pricing in the city’s sanitation district and said early results have been encouraging.
“We are the first in the nation to roll out simultaneous, curbside collection of food scraps, as well as the unit based pricing structure,” Mayor Florsheim said, describing the Middletown program that covers approximately 28,100 residential addresses inside the sanitation district and targets areas where residents are often renters.
Middletown told the forum the sanitation district has achieved a 62% diversion rate for food scraps in the pilot area; the mayor said the program had diverted about 47 tons at an earlier report and that the total has…
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