Local governments have a powerful role to play in the success of local composting. The many co-benefits that local composting offers — jobs, resilient soils, enhanced food security, and community ...

The District of Columbia (the District) has public-private partnerships with two Washington, D.C. area community composters, Compost Crew and Agricity (doing business as Compost Cab). In 2022, the DC ...

In August 2020, Compost Bennett — founded in Philadelphia in 2009— signed a long-term contract with the City of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department (Parks & Rec) to locate its composting ...

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) manages 335 properties with a total of 2,212 resident buildings and about 361,000 residents in all five boroughs of New York City. The average income of ...

The Los Angeles Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) Department, in collaboration with LA Compost, applied for and received two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Composting for Food Waste Reduction ...

The City of Greenbelt has worked closely over the years with the City’s Green Team, using a PPP model to initiate a variety of community composting programs. The Green Team is a citizen group, ...

The City of Cleveland, Mayor’s Office of Sustainability and Cleveland Metroparks have partnered separately with Rust Belt Riders Composting LLC (Rust Belt Riders) to provide food scraps drop-off ...

Happy Trash Can Curbside Composting LLC (HTC) began offering food scraps collection service to households and commercial businesses in 2016 in Bozeman and surrounding communities. In 2021, HTC ...

State regulators set the rate of profit, also called return on equity, that utilities can pay their investors. For decades, state regulators have been allowing utilities to overcharge their customers ...

To consolidate control over generative AI and deepen their monopoly power, dominant tech firms are driving a wave of hyperscale data center construction that is colliding with communities nationwide.

Distributed solar, which can be owned by individuals, small businesses, and public entities, is turning the electricity industry upside down as individuals choose to generate their own solar power on ...

Across the nation, families and individuals are struggling to keep up with skyrocketing electric bills. Electricity prices have soared in recent years, dramatically outpacing both inflation and wage ...