Omaha’s recycling program falling behind peer cities

Rachel Garey-Jacobsen keeps her worms in her basement.

Every week, she carries her metal compost container full of food scraps downstairs to feed the worms in their bin. In a few months’ time, the red wigglers will convert Jacobsen’s food waste into compost that she then will put in her garden.

Jacobsen is an avid recycler, ramping up in 2018 when she moved from Grand Island to Omaha…

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