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Committee recommends keeping landfill food‑waste drop‑off, continuing scaled yard‑waste composting and studying expansion to schools and county facilities
Summary
Staff recommended, and the committee approved, continuing an upscaled vegetative‑waste composting operation at the county landfill, making the food‑waste drop‑off pilot permanent, and conducting feasibility studies for food‑waste processing at county facilities and up to nine additional permanent drop‑off sites.
The committee received a multi‑year update on the county’s composting pilot programs and voted to recommend staff options to the full Board.
Tony Hayes, Loudoun County recycling manager, described the county’s efforts to upscale vegetative‑waste composting at the landfill and to pilot a public food‑waste drop‑off center. Hayes said the county has composted nearly 6,000 cubic yards of material since upscaling and has given away roughly 500 cubic yards of…
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