Boulder, Colorado
Executive Director Eric Lombardi of Eco-Cycle and its newest project EcoCycle International describes his travels to Ireland leading him to the "perfect food composting system for Boulder County." In Ireland, he writes in the latest Eco-Cycle Times, the cost to landfill is $150 per ton (more than ten times the rate at Boulder sites. The "recycling tax" on garbage in Ireland is over $20/ton (117 times as much as the 17 cents collected in Colorado). "And then there's the government's legal obligation from the European Union to radically reduce the amount of untreated biodegradable waste going into landfills by the year 2016 (as compared to no federal requirements to reduce landfilling in the U.S.) The sum of all these factors is Ireland getting serious about reducing its landfilling rates, and composting has been one of their primary tactics."
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