"Moving waste from large generators of organic waste to compost facility" "Hauling lack of" "Trucks distributing compost" Capacity "Not enough facilities to process the current food waste in our area" "Need every state permitted compost processor to accept & process food scraps" "No fully permitted compost facility 40 miles ↑" "Volumes of food waste in our city is higher than our current capacity…." "Drop off locations lack of" "Available Haulers/ facilities to compile food waste" "What are the outlets for the composted materials? Where will it be used? In the community? "Lack of end markets for finished compost (economic viability-closing the loop)" "Customers want smaller quantities but don't want to travel not bagged" "Composters are full. Focus on end user.” "Better use of compost within infrastructure of Gov. uses: IDOT, Munic(ipalities)" Elsewhere (farms, landscaping projects, etc.)?" "Placing value of compost in and out bound" "Supply and demand. Can we use all this compost?" "In affluent suburbs pro landscaping w/ wood mulch and synthetic fertilizer is the norm" "Landfill CHEAP in Illinois" "Low cost of landfilling. no urgency to find alternatives." "Tipping Fees are a barrier to increasing the commercial model. It’s expensive to tip AND its expensive to process" "Contamination Plastics Trash" "Need processors to acknowledge and accept compostable food service items" “Contamination from commercial composter: contamination proteins + fat harder, compostables” "Need other options to compostable packaging, climate impact of compostable packaging, liners energy intensive, PFAS & unknown chemicals"
Demand
S YSTEMIC I SSUES
Tipping fees
Contamination
"Contamination from post-consumer food waste" "Floral remnants technically Industrial waste"
Trust/confusion "What can be composted varies by drop off/pickup facility." "Chicago has a very low success rate with recycling. How can people trust Chicago will be any better with composting?" "Confusion on Compostables •more energy intensive • Chemicals PFAS & Unknown Chemicals" "Community gardens thought of being helpful when dropping off but no knowledge or contribution of work" "Lack of transparency about quality of finished compost (what's in it?)" Permitting/Policy "Pollution control facility permitting prohibitively expensive. Pollution Control Facilities very difficult to site-very valid EJ (environmental justice) concerns" Education "Rats/rodents prevalence limiting who/how many people want to compost at home" "The proliferation & fear of pests" "What is the Community Compost Pilot?" "Rats (oooh oooh)" (barrier) “Peoples' aversion to storing scraps in home-stinky!”
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