Some Medford, Massachusetts residents are upset after the city announced plans to cut trash pickup back to every other week as part of a new plan to expand composting in the city. The compost push comes after the city secured a $200,000 grant that would require the city to limit weekly trash service to 32-gallons a week or the two-week equivalent of the 64-gallon buckets the city deploys now.
“There are four people who live in my house, and we go through two barrels, so we pay for an extra anyways,” said Chris Donnelly, a Medford barber and resident. “We go through that every week, so if we have to cut it down by 50% a week, I don’t know how many people can sustain that.”
In a release, the city says solid food waste accounts for a large portion of the state’s solid waste, and costs more to dispose of because it weighs more. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has considered expanding a food waste ban to all Massachusetts residents by 2030…