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Santa Cruz Sees Mixed Success In Composting Program

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Composting Santa Cruz
City of Santa Cruz food shredding machine that’s used by the city to prepare the city’s food scraps for recycling. (Photo By: Saul Gonzalez, The California Report)

Santa Cruz Sees Some Success, But Limited Participation In Food Composting Program

When the food scraps we throw out from our kitchens get hauled to dumps, they release methane, a super-accelerant of climate change. So last year, a state law went into effect requiring California cities to slash the amount of food waste they send to landfills. But how is implementation of that law going?
Reporter: Saul Gonzalez, The California Report

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