According to My Green Michigan, “Nearly 81% of Americans feel we aren’t doing enough as a society to combat wastefulness,” and that includes food waste.
Thanks to this program from the City of Kalamazoo, residents now have easier ways to dispose of their organic waste. The goal is to reduce landfill waste and help build a more sustainable future for the next generation of Kalamazooians.
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Have you ever heard of a food scrap recycling program?
Similar programs exist in Lansing, and our neighbors in the City of Portage were also testing a similar program throughout 2025, essentially, a ‘food scrap recycling program’ is a community-wide composting effort. Explains the City of Kalamazoo,
Instead of sending organic waste to landfills, where it contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, food scraps can be recycled into nutrient-rich compost…