Food waste collection services have dominated the discussion around waste management and landfill emissions recently. Centralised, government-steered, kerbside-collected waste management has for around a century been the number one strategy and expectation for almost all streams of household rubbish, but as we know from the renewable energy sector, a centralised service is not always best in every situation, and won’t always cover the whole population.
As with other infrastructure services, we have the option to manage organic waste on a second level, in the household, but also on a third, in the community. Centralised services have made things convenient over the last century: out of view, implemented via industrial operators through government contracts, with costs that are withdrawn from us in a vague bundle of periodic rates.
With a background…
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Renew (Digital) - 1 Issue, 170 / Jan-Mar 2025