
{"id":13270,"date":"2010-10-21T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2010-10-21T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:18:12","slug":"compost-touted-as-a-way-to-reduce-waste-to-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/10\/21\/compost-touted-as-a-way-to-reduce-waste-to-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"Compost touted as a way to reduce waste to landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Will Bryant<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Add another \u00e2\u20ac\u0153r\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the mantra of reduce, reuse and recyle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rot.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County residents are likely to see a push for composting as part of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s updated strategy for solid-waste reduction.<\/p>\n<p>In recent briefings on the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s update to it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 10 Year Solid Waste Management Plan, Gayle Wilson, director of Orange County Solid Waste Management, has outlined some of the goals for a continued reduction of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solid-waste stream. During a briefing last week in Carrboro, the idea of increasing the number of residents who compost took center stage.<\/p>\n<p>Carrboro Board of Aldermen member Sammy Slade said it may be one of the best strategies to help the county reach its goal and would have the additional benefit of encouraging more people to grow their own food.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Composting is our way of feeding the soil so it can feed us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Slade said in a recent interview. He said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to see a community-wide curbside-pickup composting project like those already up and running in San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and smaller towns on the West Coast. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s optimistic such a project could take root in Carrboro and the result could help supply compost to the growing number of community gardens.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fact that [other towns] are doing it is proof that it can be done,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Slade said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The pilot projects are up and running; all we need to do is get it started.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nCounty Commissioner Mike Nelson said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also convinced that composting would be a help.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is so easy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nelson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You just need a bin, some kitchen waste and some worms. All you have to do is let the worms do their work. The fertilizer that comes from composting is amazing. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy fertilizer like that in stores.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add another \u00e2\u20ac\u0153r\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to the mantra of reduce, reuse and recyle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c rot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13313,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions\/13313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}