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Somerville plans school kitchen organic waste program and curbside composting pilot; rodent control cited as constraint
Summary
The City’s Office of Sustainability and Environment told the Finance Committee it plans to expand a kitchen-based organic-waste disposal program for Somerville Public Schools and to run an 18‑month curbside composting pilot serving about 1,000 households in FY26; staff said rodent control and interdepartmental coordination shaped the rollout.
The Somerville Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE) briefed the Finance Committee on June 10 on planned expansions of school organic-waste disposal and a curbside composting pilot.
OSE staff described two parallel programs: a back-of-house “kitchen organic waste disposal” expansion for school nutrition operations that will capture kitchen food waste disposed by staff, and a separate curbside composting pilot for about 1,000 residents that will run about…
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