"Municipal residential curbside collection is expanding to more & more places" "Compost pilots (thinking mostly drop-offs)" "Compost pilot programs" "Curbside composting available at an additional cost to residents through waste hauler" "Park District may offer composting @ Community garden plots" "Community Compost Pilot" "Block Bins, Curbside composting, opt-in, Shareable bins…." "Healthy Soil Compost, Urban Canopy" "Container swap services in the Collective Resource Compost that fill in the blanks and are more flexible" "Livestock waste Leaf + Food composting" "Commercial/residential composting pick up systems" "The service areas of many of the smaller food scrap haulers appears to be expanding." "Local small haulers for residential/commercial use" "Current Subscription program accepts (most)of yard & food waste curbside (no animal products. however)" "Private haulers offering a variety of options (pick-ups, drop-offs, shared bins, etc.)" "Our current waste contractor offers mixed yard / food composting for curbside pickup (for a Subscription fee / 9 months only of the year)"
F EE - BASED /P RIVATE S ERVICES Specific
General
P ROCESSING
Chicago
"Green Eras Anaerobic Digestor Auburn Gresham area"
Greater- Chicagoland O THER E FFORTS
"Waste Management has composting sites in Romeoville, Grayslake, DeKalb,"
"Direct landscape waste back to the landscape on campus" "Laws (which) allow local govt to permit food waste collections (&) drop off" "Testing Certification Models STA OMRI" "IFSCC working to develop end markets" "Black Soldier fly research Jeremy Lynch @UIC Gabriel someone."
T ABLE 6: S UMMARY C OMMENTS ON C URRENT E FFORTS IN P OLICY Note: Comments are representative of the identified themes. Not all comments are displayed. A CTIVE P OLICIES /L AWS State "Yard waste ban" "The State of Illinois adopted Illinois Compost Awareness Week."
"Recent urban ag/farming change in composting on the farm site (not 100% sure on)" “1990 Landscape solid waste ban” "Styrofoam bans”
Chicago
“Chicago Compost Ordinance"
"Partnerships between municipalities and County level waste agencies"
Regional
Institutions
"UIC donate excess prepared food to shelters. bananas."
N EW ( ER ) E FFORTS facilities
"Efforts to Streamline facility permit process" "MMAC 2021 Report to ILGA recommends looking @ permitting to facilitate allowing landscape waste facilities to accept & process food/organics."
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