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Transfer station: food-scrap program averaging 600 lb/week; program still operating at a deficit
Summary
Staff reported the town's food-scrap program is averaging roughly 600 pounds a week (about 2.4 tons/month) and remains cost-negative; Planet New Canaan reconciles the delta. Commissioners asked for historical waste-stream data and discussed vendor consolidation and a potential RFP next fiscal year.
Town staff reported Oct. 9 that New Canaan’s food-scrap program is averaging about 600 pounds a week and that the program currently operates at a net cost rather than cost-neutral. Tiger, the staff member overseeing transfer-station reporting, told the commission the program produced roughly 4,800 pounds in the past month (reported as about 2.4 tons) and cited a rough annualized figure of about 28.8 tons per year.
Tiger said…
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