{"id":349,"date":"2014-12-12T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/?p=349"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:09:22","slug":"philadelphia-moves-closer-to-city-wide-pickup-of-organic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/archived-posts\/philadelphia-moves-closer-to-city-wide-pickup-of-organic-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia moves closer to city-wide pickup of organic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/nation_world\/20141127_Next_step_for_recycling__Composting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article <\/a>provides some details on alternate locations for organic waste, now that the facility in Delaware has shut down&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[In November 2014] two Philadelphia City Council committees held a hearing on food waste composting, explorin<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">g how the city could get into the action&#8230; Food scraps are seen as the next frontier for waste reduction. Philadelphia&#8217;s curbside recycling rate for bottles, cans, paper, and similar materials has nearly topped out. Since food waste is about 24 percent of the household waste stream, that&#8217;s an obvious next step, many say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The committee heard from operations small and large&#8230;Their message: It can be done. It also can create jobs and save the city money. For a city that aims to be the greenest in the nation, it would help the environment by reducing methane gas from landfills and by creating lush soils for city gardens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides some details on alternate locations for organic waste, now that the facility in Delaware has shut down&#8230;. &#8220;[In November 2014] two Philadelphia City Council committees held a hearing on food waste composting, exploring how the city could get into the action&#8230; Food scraps are seen as the next frontier for waste reduction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[19,22,14],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-posts","tag-composting","tag-philadelphia","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/7386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelawrence.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}