Solid Waste Management

We can do better than to transport our garbage to the dump, to be sorted, transferred, and trucked down the hill to fill up a landfill. While our current recycling is to be applauded and encouraged, it is only a start.

Right now, organic waste is carried away and winds up in a landfill. We need to encourage and facilitate composting, on the individual and community level.

We need not be limited by the conventional. Perhaps we could, directly or through an intermediary, collect our community’s organic waste, and process it into a product with commercial value. While preparation of commercial compost is the obvious, could we make pellets that could be burned for heat or used as fuel for a still?