Many in Austin are still without power Friday following the ice storm that gripped Central Texas this week. In a recent briefing, Mayor Kirk Watson said "I apologize that we've let the people down in Austin."
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Austin Resource Recovery (ARR) is slated to begin the fourth and final expansion of its curbside composting program this month, bringing the total number of Austin, Texas, residents with access to the organics diversion service to over 200,000 households.
The city began introducing curbside composting for all organics in 2017 along existing yard waste pickup routes. Start dates for the 55,000 single-family homes being added in this round will be split between the weeks of Feb. 8 and Feb. 15.
An August 2018 audit indicated an approximately 30% program participation rate. It s hard to say how much the city has improved on overall landfill diversion goals as the program has expanded; when the diversion rate was last measured in 2015, it stood at 42%. But the city has diverted about 91,000 tons of compostable material from landfills via the program, which is sent to Organics By Gosh for processing.
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