Arkansas city’s diversion plan calls for C&D debris recycling and composting food waste

Arkansas city’s diversion plan calls for C&D debris recycling and composting food waste
<![CDATA[The city council in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is scheduled to consider a waste diversion plan from Kessler Consulting, Tampa, Florida, that sets the city’s diversion goal to 40 percent by 2027, a report by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette says. The plan focuses on recycling, compost and construction and demolition (C&D) bulk debris.

According to the report, a proposal to amend certain parts of the plan is also scheduled, but Mayor Lioneld Jordan wants to start with the generally agreed-upon parts, including food waste compost, construction waste pick-up and recycling collection at apartments and multi-family homes.

The city runs a 3-acre yard waste compost heap and work has started to receive permits to include food waste into the mix within the next six months, the report says. Once approvals go through, the city will use participants from a 2016 pilot program, including restaurants, a school, the senior activity center and the University of Arkansas, to roll out the program.

The city also plans to put out requests for proposals for an outside company to collect and recycle C&D debris. According to the report, it would be up to the company the city chooses to collect revenue from the collected debris.

According to the report, part of the plans also includes recycling pickup at multi-family residences and apartment complexes with a 24 unit maximum that have fronts facing the streets.

The plan also calls for the city to convert to single-stream recycling, which caused controversy among residences. According to the report, converting to single-stream would cause the city to construction a regional materials recovery facility (MRF) or a “mini-MRF” if the regional facility is not supported. The consultants estimated construction would cost $3.8 million.

Another controversial aspect of the plan set aside by the amendment proposal is mandatory recycling, the report says.
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Source: Recycling Today
Arkansas city’s diversion plan calls for C&D debris recycling and composting food waste
<![CDATA[The city council in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is scheduled to consider a waste diversion plan from Kessler Consulting, Tampa, Florida, that sets the city’s diversion goal to 40 percent by 2027, a report by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette says. The plan focuses on recycling, compost and construction and demolition (C&D) bulk debris.According to the report, a proposal to amend certain parts of the plan is also scheduled, but Mayor Lioneld Jordan wants to start with the generally agreed-upon parts, including food waste compost, construction waste pick-up and recycling collection at apartments and multi-family homes.The city runs a 3-acre yard waste compost heap and work has started to receive permits to include food waste into the mix within the next six months, the report says. Once approvals go through, the city will use participants from a 2016 pilot program, including restaurants, a school, the senior activity center and the University of Arkansas, to roll out the program.The city also plans to put out requests for proposals for an outside company to collect and recycle C&D debris. According to the report, it would be up to the company the city chooses to collect revenue from the collected debris.According to the report, part of the…