The plan is for two haulers to pick up about 25 tons of waste a week, largely to test the logistics of such a process. The waste will be turned over to Metro. Currently, Honolulu and Nova Scotia require that certain businesses recycle organic wastes. San Francisco waste haulers also pick up limited amounts of organics. Last week, the Metro Council took one giant step for slop.
Organics are no small issue.
Vince Gilbert thinks that's a tragedy. The future is in organic waste. They won't be the first to try large-scale reclamation of organic waste in the area. But they hope to be the first to succeed. In 1991, Reidel Environmental Technologies opened a full-scale composting plant on Columbia Boulevard.