After a five month pilot program this past fall, Howard County is expanding its curbside compost pick-up program in Elkridge and Ellicott City.
Food makes up 14% of what goes into our nation's landfills.
Curbside composting is good economics, for it will earn the county money by selling the black-gold, nutrient-rich soil that is created from our kitchen and lawn scraps, and save the county money by reducing the amount of space it needs in rapidly filling landfills.
And it is good for the environment, for it turns the dead-end line of production, consumption and waste into a endless circle of production, consumption and production again.
Curbside composting is coming to us all. It is simply a matter of when.
Kudos to Howard County for pioneering this in our region. Perhaps Baltimore county can ask for volunteers in a designated area to test it out over the winter months too.
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