All single-family homes in Seattle must sign up for table-scrap recycling in 2009, the City Council decided Monday.While residents will have to pay for the service, the city will not check whether they are actually dumping food in the new separate bin.
Reducing food trash was a piece of a larger plan the council unanimously approved Monday to reduce the amount of garbage sent to the landfill.
“We can reduce the waste stream,” said Councilmember Richard Conlin, chair of the utilities committee. “We can treat waste as a resource and continue to recirculate it as we reclaim, recycle it or turn it into compost.”
Starting in April 2009, all single-family homes will be required to subscribe to food-waste recycling, a program that is now optional through the yard-waste collection program. A variety of containers will be available for different rates. Prices have not been set.
Recycling food waste will be voluntary for apartments, as well as for businesses, which produce twice as much food waste as residents.
Conlin said he hopes garbage-collection rates can be adjusted to absorb some of the additional cost homeowners will have to pay for food recycling.
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