PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland is piloting a curbside composting program. About 2,000 households plan to participate in the yearlong experiment.
Each resident will get a two-gallon compost pail for storing their food scraps. They will dump those scraps along with paper napkins and pizza boxes into their existing yard-waste bins.
The yard-waste bins will be picked up every week instead of every other week. But normal trash pickup will happen less often. Trash cans will be emptied every two weeks instead of once every week.
Some feel this will be an incentive to recycle more. But others say it will be a challenge.
