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Toledo to seek bids for permanent residential food-waste collection program
Summary
City officials asked council to authorize a competitive bidding process to expand a pilot food-waste-collection program after reporting more than 100,000 pounds diverted during the pilot.
A Department of Public Service representative asked Toledo City Council on May 13 to approve starting a competitive bidding process for a permanent residential food-waste collection program.
The city says food waste can account for up to 30% of the residential waste stream by weight and that, when landfilled, the organic material generates methane and uses landfill capacity. The presenter said the program would divert organic material to composting or…
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