Nobody knows exactly why, but thousands of composting buckets in D.C., where people throw their food scraps, have gone missing. It has forced the D.C. Department of Public Works to switch things up.
From when the pilot program started in August 2023 through the end of 2024, more than 4,000 of the five-gallon compost buckets were stolen from outside people’s homes. In all, 9,000 households received those buckets.
“They can serve many uses. I suppose we’ve actually spotted a few people on ring cams actually taking them,” John Johnson, with D.C.’s Office of Waste Diversion, told WTOP in December. “I think it’s actually a contractor that stopped by and picked it up.”…